As Julian Assange prepares to face a British court for possibly the last time, threatened with up to 175 years detention in a US supermax prison, his biographer, journalist Gary Lord, explores the latest bizarre twists in the US effort to extradite the Wikileaks founder and the silence of global media.
Source: Britain’s Guantanamo: is Julian Assange a terrorist? – Michael West Media
The term “offshore processing” suggests something industrial, mechanistic. In the field of refugee and asylum seeker policy, it involves detaining humans, their dehumanisation and the vast, prohibitive expenditure of funds from the public purse. As a model, one country has sold it with unshakeable conviction and aplomb: Australia.
Selling Australia’s offshore detention regime to the world
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