Julian Assange campaign to hold metaverse political rally against extradition

The “Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign,” dedicated to gathering enactment against the extradition of Wikileaks laminitis Julian Assange to the United States, is launching a virtual governmental rally successful the metaverse.

Assange has been confined wrong Belmarsh Prison successful London since April 2019, warring a tribunal conflict against his extradition to the U.S., wherever helium could perchance look up to 175 years successful situation connected charges of espionage for leaking accusation astir the wrongdoings of the US agencies successful Iraq and Afghanistan.

Assange founded WikiLeaks, which person been known to people classified and delicate accusation against wrongdoings of assorted governments successful the nationalist domain. However, his journalistic enactment exposing governments has made him a superior people of respective agencies, particularly successful the United States.

The Julian Assange campaign, backed by Assange and his family, has planned the virtual governmental rally successful a bid to entreaty to much radical and stitchery enactment against the extradition aft his past entreaty successful June against the extradition was rejected by the United Kingdom court.

The virtual lawsuit volition beryllium held connected Aug. 26 successful Wistaverse, a not-for-profit metaverse successful The Sandbox ecosystem connected the Polygon blockchain. The governmental rally volition spot speeches by Stella Assange, woman of Julian Assange, Kristinn Hrafnsson, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, and different high-profile guests, including British person Jeremy Corbyn, the erstwhile person of the country’s Labour Party. The speakers astatine the rally volition look either arsenic characters wrong the lawsuit oregon with filmed contributions shown connected screens.

Cointelegraph got successful interaction with John Rees, the laminitis and manager of the Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign, who said that they selected to clasp a virtual rally successful the anticipation of reaching a wider audience. Rees added that the crushed for the rally is:

“To publicize the Assange lawsuit and to mobilize radical for the protestation astatine the court. To marque definite that radical cognize that this is the 11th hr successful the Assange lawsuit and that if the authorities goes up with extradition a precise existent stroke volition person been struck against the state of the press.“

The rally volition instrumentality spot successful a virtual auditorium designed to look similar the Royal Courts of Justice successful London, wherever Assange is acceptable to look his last entreaty successful the U.K. tribunal system. The virtual situation “dedicated to protests and societal action” volition diagnostic a recorded connection from Assange, arsenic well.

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Many organizations progressive successful civilian rights and state of the property person supported Assange pursuing the WikiLeaks publication and urged U.S. authorities to driblet the lawsuit for extradition. Amid erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump’s last days successful bureau — anterior to the Capitol insurrection connected January 6, 2021 — crypto users donated much than $400,000 to Assange’s defence squad successful hopes of a statesmanlike pardon, portion a decentralized autonomous enactment raised $53 million for the WikiLeaks co-founder successful 2022.

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