{"id":93303,"date":"2011-06-24T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2011-06-24T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T10:52:18","slug":"open-justice-admission-to-assange-hearing-by-ticket-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=93303","title":{"rendered":"Open justice: Admission to Assange hearing &#039;by ticket only&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px} -->Up to 100 journalists will be allowed access to the extradition appeal of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange at the Royal Courts of Justice on 12 July &#8212; &#8220;by ticket only&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Media companies will be informed whether they have been allocated tickets after the application deadline on Monday 4 July.<\/p>\n<p>The press has been given 75 seats in the courtroom and a further 25 seats in the public gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Media organisations, rather than individual journalists, will be allocated the spaces and proof of identity must be provided on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Assange has been living in Norfolk under bail conditions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/wikileaks\/8579350\/WikiLeaks-Julian-Assanges-excessive-and-dehumanising-house-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\">for the past six months<\/a>. His supporters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/wikileaks\/8579299\/WikiLeaks-statement-in-full.html\" target=\"_blank\">last week claimed<\/a> that he is being detained &#8220;under house arrest&#8221; in &#8220;excessive and dehumanising&#8221; conditions.<\/p>\n<p>His earlier appearances in court attracted widespread press interest, with the judge giving specific permission for journalists to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/AlexiMostrous\/status\/14677851739521024\" target=\"_blank\">live-tweet from court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Assange versus the Swedish Judicial Authority will be heard in Court 4 at <\/em><em>the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday 12 July 2011 at 10.30 before Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Ouseley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Open justice<\/strong>: Admission to Assange hearing &#8216;by ticket only&#8217;   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7210,2476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}