Contacts for Interviewees

20210520 To (all journalists at) Radio New Zealand : The Case of Julian Assange : Suggestions for interviews

Thanks to Radio New Zealand and to Bryan Crump for conducting these in-depth interviews 'Julian Assange and the Future of the Press' (2020-11-02) and to Kim Hill for her interview with Jennifer Robinson ' Fighting for Assange, West Papua and Public Education (2021-04-21 ).

Julian Assange remains arbitrarily detained in solitary confinement in London's Belmarsh maximum security Prison awaiting an appeal by the United States of America to extradite him to face trial for having published evidence of breaches of the Geneva Convention by U.S. and U.K. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While New Zealand's Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta recently confirmed that " Aotearoa New Zealand is a strong proponent of the international rules based system." public awareness in this case, which is already having a chilling effect on the willingness of journalists to investigate and report on the excesses power, remains very low, with a consequent, commensurate lack of support for a political/diplomatic solution. i.e. the release of Julian Assange and investigation into evidence of breaches of the Geneva Convention.

To maintain a functioning, responsive, democracy, our journalists must be free to investigate and to publicise information on the behaviour of our institutions without fear of intimidation and reprisal.

For more background on the case of Julian Assange, go to : www.aotearoa4assange.nz

Here are some suggestions for other possible interviewees who have been involved in the case of Julian Assange.

Nils Melzer ( U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture Contact : sr-torture@ohchr.org )

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Torture/SRTorture/Pages/NilsMelzer.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Melzer

about to be released book : The Case of Julian Assange - interviewed by Randy Credico on 2021-05-03 on Live on the Fly by Randy Credico

Rebecca Vincent : Director of International Campaigns @ Reporters Without Borders

https://rsf.org/en/media-center

Rebecca Vincent : rvincent[at]rsf.org UK Bureau Director London :

See video on : https://www.dw.com/en/the-case-of-julian-assange-rule-of-law-undermined/a-57260909

Nicky Hager : A very good interview with Nicky Hager NZ investigative journalist talking about Julian Assange and Wikileaks with ( 0:21:46) Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM's Earthwise program( Christchurch ) Nicky has met Julian Assange and has worked with Wikileaks. Nicky testified in support of Assange at the extradition trial in London

Published: 10/19/2020 9:00:00 PM Nicky Hager can be contacted by email to nhager@actrix.co.nz

John Shipton ( Julian Assange's Father Contact possibilities : Northern Rivers NSW for Assange ( on Facebook ) - currently on a nationwide tour of Australia promoting his son's release from Belmarsh Prison in London. Organisers are intending to take the tour to the United States on the 20th of June 2021.

Stella Moris-Smith Robertson ( Julian Assange's partner Assange have two sons, Gabriel, born in 2017, and Max, born in 2019,

https://www.facebook.com/stella.moris.7773/about_contact_and_basic_info

Kristinn Hrafnsson (Wikileaks Editor in Chief )

https://www.facebook.com/wikileaks

https://twitter.com/khrafnsson?lang=en

https://wikileaks.org/Enquiries-and-Contact.html

Noam Chomsky : https://chomsky.info/about/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYdDp4mHDRY

John Pilger : UK-based Australian journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker.

http://johnpilger.com/contact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_w8hWXoD6k&t=6s

Scott Ludlum : former Greens MP from Western Australia..