<story><title>Assange Hearing Day 2</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndyMcConachie</author><text>&amp;gt; Julian had twice been stripped naked and searched, eleven times been handcuffed, and five times been locked up in different holding cells. On top of this, all of his court documents had been taken from him by the prison authorities, including privileged communications between his lawyers and himself, and he had been left with no ability to prepare to participate in today’s proceedings.&lt;p&gt;Still barely any mention of this case in the mainstream American or UK press. Until recently Amnesty International refused to even recognize Assange as a political prisoner, and the only thing they had said about him was that he was &amp;quot;not a political prisoner&amp;quot;. They&amp;#x27;ve since changed their tune, but it sure took them long enough.&lt;p&gt;A man is being tortured in plain sight in the UK and no one in the media cares to report on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mnem</author><text>A quick search using Google news in the UK shows that all the main broadsheets and many of the tabloids have Assange related stories over the past several days at least. I don’t think it’s fair to characterise the media as disinterested.</text></comment>
<story><title>Assange Hearing Day 2</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndyMcConachie</author><text>&amp;gt; Julian had twice been stripped naked and searched, eleven times been handcuffed, and five times been locked up in different holding cells. On top of this, all of his court documents had been taken from him by the prison authorities, including privileged communications between his lawyers and himself, and he had been left with no ability to prepare to participate in today’s proceedings.&lt;p&gt;Still barely any mention of this case in the mainstream American or UK press. Until recently Amnesty International refused to even recognize Assange as a political prisoner, and the only thing they had said about him was that he was &amp;quot;not a political prisoner&amp;quot;. They&amp;#x27;ve since changed their tune, but it sure took them long enough.&lt;p&gt;A man is being tortured in plain sight in the UK and no one in the media cares to report on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>It won&amp;#x27;t make the US press, because all of that is a pretty typical US jail experience, sadly.</text></comment>