Nightslantern Suppressed News // // April 23, 2019 #Alexandria, #Virginia / #StateCorrectionalInstitution – #Mahanoy, #Pennsylvania

27.4.19

Alexandria Virginia: Chelsea Manning was serving a 35 year sentence for providing Wikileaks with classified information, when she was freed in 2017 by President Barack Obama's commutation. On March 5th, 2019 her attorneys tried to counter the government's subpoena of February 5th which required Manning to appear before a federal grand jury to answer questions about her dealings with Wikileaks. Forced to appear, she refused to provide information and was placed in the Alexandria Detention Center. Manning is supposed to stay in prison until she agrees to testify, as long as the grand jury is in session. Her attorneys' bids to free her on bail or to appeal the court order have been denied. The U.S. has requested the extradition to face criminal charge in the U.S., of Julian Assange who founded Wikileaks. In England Assange was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy March 11th and placed in a maximum security prison. Habitually refusing to acknowledge international law it's puzzling that the U.S. can make legal claims to jurisdiction over an Australian national in Great Britain. Background. Partial sources online: "Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify before grand jury in Virginia," March 8, 2019, NBC News; "Appeals court rejects Chelsea Manning's effort to leave jail," April 22, 2019, NBC News.

State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy, Pennsylvania: Night's Lantern has noted previously that "under a ruling Dec. 28, 2018 by Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge, Leon Tucker, Mumia Abu-Jamal is finally granted an opportunity to argue for his freedom in a retrial. Judge Tucker found that the judge who presided over Abu-Jamal's previous and thought to be final appeal should have recused himself." (WhyY News). Judge Tucker's reason was that the presiding judge had in writing attempted to expedite application of death penalties to Pennsylvania convicts while repeatedly acting as the judge of Abu-Jamal's appeals. The chance for a retrial before the State's Supreme Court of Abu-Jamal's early appeal could have been sidetracked by the Philadelphia District Attorney, Larry Krasner, who considered that, but has relented and the road ahead is clear for the case to move forward. After honestly reporting the MOVE 9's persecution by Philadelphia police, Mumia Abu-Jamal was accused and convicted of killing a policeman and received the death sentence in 1982, which was overturned in 2001 and replaced by life in prison without parole. I first wrote about the case for The PEN Newsletter in "An Open Letter to American Writers," 1994 , attempting to move the white American establishment to support the rights and freedom-of-expression of a black journalist. Background. Partial sources online: "Judge: Mumia Abu-Jamal can reargue appeal in 1981 Philly police slaying," Bobby Allyn, Dec. 28, 2018, WhyY News; "Why Philly’s Reformist Prosecutor Finally Supports Letting Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Appeal Go Forward," Natasha Leonard, April 20 , 2019, The Intercept.; "Judge in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case blasts Krasner for trying to block latest appeal," Bobby Allyn, April 1, 2019, WhyY.

Report by by j. b. gerald // http://www.nightslantern.ca/2019bulletin.htm#apr19

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