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M.I.A. Attended Julian Assange's Wikileaks Speech at Ecuadorian Embassy, Defends Him Against Rape Accusations

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While news of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange speech from the Ecuador embassy in London last weekend made headlines, singer M.I.A. didn't have to rely on secondhand sources for that information: she was there by personal invitation.

According to NME and the musician's Twitter feed, M.I.A. gained access to the building and posted images of Assange from within the embassy. "Just posted a photo," she tweeted on Aug. 19 with a picture showing Assange speaking from a window with some others behind him.

Other photos from that day on her account include her getting ready to go to the speech while another shows a speaker from outside the embassy. She reportedly also posted a series of YouTube links showing support for Assange which were later removed.

"hummmm after this day 2things have 2 happen.....," she tweeted later that day. "either 500 cops turn up outside every rape case reported even if its without charge. or we get raped by the powerz that be and we deal 4eva," she tweeted soon afterwards.

The tweets were in reference to an arrest warrant the Swedish Prosecutor's Office issued in August 2010 for Assange on two charges: rape and molestation. Earlier this year Britain's Supreme Court denied an appeal by Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden to face these charges. He is currently in the Ecuadorian embassy where he was granted asylum.

M.I.A revealed earlier this year she composed the theme to Assange's television show The World Tomorrow. The musician released her last studio album Maya in 2010.


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Gary Christensen TV 10 News, Costa Rica
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Hold your horses.

Oscar Arias and his secret "US vetted" secret Presidential Police - la DIS is a well known dictator of violence, corruption, extortion, constitutional and human rights abuses, persecution of citizens, congressmen and journalists, intimidation, threats and beatings (torture) of thousand upon thousands of innocent citizens

In Costa Rica the defacto President Oscar Arias with his secret (wikileaks) "US vetted" CIA Presidential Police - La DIS, multinational corporations, the UN, OAS and Interpol control all media and the court system.

The DIS and the US threaten and attack all here in Costa Rica and intimidate journalists in the US who attempt to disseminate Oscar Arias Presidential cartel extortion, blackmail, violence against women,human rights abuses and beatings (torture) of thousands upon thousands of innocent citizens.

It is a state apparatus of extortion, violence, terorrism, beatings and constitutional and human rights violations.

The Costa Rican Presidency has threatened us and other journalists with jail sentences should we reveal corruption and Constitutional violations.

"New law imposes a sentence (between four to eight years) in prison to those who obtain “secret political information”.

http://www.nacion.com/2012-07-12/ElPais/Nueva-ley--impone-carcel-a-quien-obtenga--informacion-secreta-politica-.aspx?Page=2

Death Threats by Government of Oscar Arias (INS) against ANEP
http://bit.ly/M5kw9d

Cato Institute, Washington D.C.

The Mafia: “Institutionalized Organized Crime" The PLN and (the Government of Oscar Arias, the US, the UN, the OAS and Laura Chinchilla http://bit.ly/HI4LTY


http://chn.ge/NM8u9k

Foundation for Human Rights http://bit.ly/JjEXUi


The "ultra repressive" Presidential Police la DIS of Oscar Arias an arm – un apendice of the C.I.A.

"beatings"
"raids"
"threats"
"violence"

Gary Christensen TV 10 News

August 23 2012 at 3:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply