Nameless hacker in Stratfor leak moved to jail with Manning to testify towards Assange & WikiLeaks

Jeremy Hammond, who helped feed thousands and thousands of emails from ‘personal CIA’ Stratfor to WikiLeaks, has reportedly been moved to Virginia to testify earlier than a grand jury, which he refuses to do, jeopardizing his early launch from jail.

Hammond has been moved to the identical Jap District the place whistleblower Chelsea Manning is presently being held for refusing to testify towards Julian Assange, the Jeremy Hammond Help Committee revealed on Tuesday in a press release. Whereas neither Hammond nor his supporters are sure of the character of the summons, he pled responsible to hacking Stratfor in 2013 so as to keep away from giving up data on his fellow activists, together with these at WikiLeaks, and has no intention of doing so now.

Jeremy pled responsible to place an finish to the case towards him. He pled responsible as a result of he had no real interest in cooperating with the federal government.

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Whereas Hammond obtained the utmost 10 12 months sentence in trade for his non-cooperating responsible plea, he was granted immunity from additional prosecution in all different federal courts and was resulting from be launched in December, having obtained a sentence discount for taking part within the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Residential Drug Abuse Program. Transferring him from Memphis, Tennessee, the place he was incarcerated, to Alexandria, Virginia, cuts brief his participation in this system and ensures he’ll serve not less than one other 12 months in jail.

Chelsea Manning and Jeremy Hammond in the identical jail

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And he could possibly be locked up for much longer, given his refusal to testify, which can place him in the identical authorized limbo the place Manning is presently entrapped. The previous army analyst, imprisoned since Might after having her sentence for leaking the categorised army paperwork comprising the Iraq and Afghanistan Conflict Logs to WikiLeaks commuted by former President Barack Obama, faces as much as 18 months extra jail time and practically half 1,000,000 in fines for refusing to testify towards Assange.

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“Like courageous grand jury resisters earlier than him, together with Chelsea Manning, Jeremy firmly believes that grand juries are repressive instruments of the federal government, used to research and intimidate activist communities and are abused by prosecutors to achieve entry to intelligence to which they aren’t entitled,” the Help Committee’s assertion continues, condemning “a transparent sample of concentrating on, isolating, and punishing outspoken truth-tellers and activists.”

Hammond, working with the web activist group Nameless, hacked into Stratfor’s servers in 2011 and funneled over 5 million emails from the self-styled “personal CIA” to WikiLeaks, together with hundreds which revealed particulars of the federal government’s pursuit of Assange and the group he helped discovered. Assange is presently imprisoned within the UK and faces potential extradition to the US – particularly, the Jap District of Virginia, which has by no means didn’t convict a whistleblower. He’s charged with a number of violations of the Espionage Act carrying a complete of 175 years in jail.

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