{"id":714956,"date":"2022-06-24T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=247325"},"modified":"2022-06-24T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:54:30","slug":"merrick-garland-drop-the-charges-against-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/24\/merrick-garland-drop-the-charges-against-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrick Garland: Drop the Charges Against Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I turned on the news yesterday and there was Attorney General Merrick Garland somewhere in Ukraine, talking about being part of the effort to prosecute war crimes charges against the Russian invaders. Coincidentally, the night before seeing our chief prosecutor in Ukraine, I had finished reading Nils Melzer&#8217;s recently-published book, the Trial of Julian Assange,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/24\/merrick-garland-drop-the-charges-against-julian-assange\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/24\/merrick-garland-drop-the-charges-against-julian-assange\/\">Merrick Garland: Drop the Charges Against Julian Assange<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/24\/merrick-garland-drop-the-charges-against-julian-assange\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned on the news yesterday and there was Attorney General Merrick Garland somewhere in Ukraine, talking about being part of the effort to prosecute war crimes charges against the Russian invaders. Coincidentally, the night before seeing our chief p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714957,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714956\/revisions\/714957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}