TRIAL OF OLA BINI IS REALLY A FISHING EXPEDITION FOR ANYTHING THEY COULD USE AGAINST JULIAN ASSANGE
The bizarre case of software developer Ola Bini should not be ignored right now.
The trial underway for the hacktivist friend of Julian Assange matters.
Like most things, it is connected to events underway.
In 2019, the Ecuadorian government arrested the hacker and friend of WikiLeaks founder, and accused him of being part of an elaborate Russian operation designed to hack their systems.
The reality of it however, is vastly different.
Ola Bini works for the Center for Digital Autonomy, a digital free speech organization, centered in Ecuador, and had accessed an unsecured government server and then contacted CNT (Ecuador's government Telecommunications Provider) to let them know about the issue.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation conducted a third party investigation in order to confirm the series of events.
Included in charges wrongly leveled against the activist are dangerously broad charges claiming the use of the theoretically decentralized Tor network to circumvent government censorship, indicates he is engaged in criminal activity; a legal precedent that could be widely abused to entrap any whistleblower attempting to circumvent censorship or tracking tools.
Human Rights Watch, an international organization dedicated to the preservation of basic human rights, has likewise reviewed the case material and found the charges spurious and designed to malign journalistic activities everywhere. Calling it a "dangerous escalation against digital rights defenders".
Yesterday, Ola Bini's trial reached a disturbingly odd moment when government prosecuters, short on actual evidence, declared that he was a criminal because he had a black hat on at the time, as though the fashion choice were a legal standpoint.
Such attacks against journalists, and the people who protect and defend the public's right to know are becoming all too common, and in the case of Ola Bini, not nearly enough people are even aware that such trials are underway.
But they are, and they affect your rights and liberties for decades to come, even if we are looking the other way.
This is one case, where speaking out matters.
Bini's computer equipment was seized during the arrest, under cover of the spurious charges, but beneath the lie being told was an attempt to gather evidence on Julian Assange, a close friend of Bini and current target of global intelligence agencies for his work in the publishing of the Afghan War Diaries, which contained extensive evidence of US War Crimes.
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note in the copypasta… prosecutors insist he must be a criminal because he wears a black hat. i kid you not.