{"id":18677,"date":"2012-05-30T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T07:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=18677"},"modified":"2012-05-30T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T07:57:28","slug":"julian-assange-supporters-hold-brisbane-vigil-18677","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/julian-assange-supporters-hold-brisbane-vigil-18677\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange Supporters Hold Brisbane Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Australia-Assange-Suporters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Australia-Assange-Suporters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Julian Assange&#8217;s supporters are holding a vigil in Brisbane ahead of a British court&#8217;s decision on whether to deport him to Sweden over sex allegations.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Supporters of the WikiLeaks website founder believe the allegations are a ploy to have him extradited to Stockholm and then deported to the US over WikiLeaks&#8217; release of US diplomatic cables.\u00a0The\u00a0UK Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision on whether a public prosecutor has a right to issue a European Arrest Warrant around 6.15pm (AEST) today.\u00a0This will have implications on whether Assange can be deported to Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters have rallied across Australia, including in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Newcastle, Townsville and Canberra.<\/p>\n<h2>Assange&#8217;s mother Christine Assange is in London awaiting the court&#8217;s verdict.<\/h2>\n<p>Anti-war activist and vigil organiser Ciaron O&#8217;Reilly told <em>AAP<\/em> the 40-year-old Australian WikiLeaks chief is resolute.\u00a0&#8220;He is up against the American empire,&#8221; Mr O&#8217;Reilly said.&#8221;They have set out to destroy him but he is very resolute and believes in what he is doing.&#8221;\u00a0Brisbane resident Greg Rolles, 30, says he is joining the vigil because he believes Assange stands for the truth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has tried to shine a light on governments that illegally start wars,&#8221; Mr Rolles said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Assange&#8217;s supporters are holding a vigil in Brisbane ahead of a British court&#8217;s decision on whether to deport him to Sweden over sex allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[14621,77194,23884,23885,23882,14530,23881,13284,13387,23879,14625,23880,13223,13259,13242,13248],"class_list":["post-18677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-assange-wikileaks","tag-australia","tag-australia-assange-wikileaks","tag-australia-julian-assange-supporters","tag-australia-wikileaks","tag-australian-julian-assange","tag-australian-wikileaks","tag-julian-assange","tag-julian-assange-mother","tag-julian-assange-uk-supreme-court","tag-julian-assange-wikileaks","tag-uk-supreme-court","tag-wikileaks","tag-wikileaks-secret-documents","tag-wikileaks-web-site","tag-wikileaks-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}