Craig Murray reports on how Julian Assange's extradition hearing is being stage-managed as a show trial. The public is nearly excluded, and the mainstream media quote from prosecutors' press release instead of reporting on the real matters at stake.

The whole article is worth reading. The details are far worse than I would have supposed.

*Julian Assange was handcuffed 11 times, stripped naked twice and had his case files confiscated after the first day of his extradition hearing, according to his lawyers, who complained of interference in his ability to take part.*

To do this to a person who has never shown any tendency to violence, and who is hardly able to access weapons, is sheer political theater as well as sabotage of his defense.