Bernard Collaery
Bob Carr
Bridget Archer
David McBride
David Shoebridge
Dean Yates

John Kiriakou
Jennifer Robinson
Karen Percy
Kelly Tranter
Kerry O’Brien
Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Mark Davis

Mary Kostakidis

Monique Ryan

Nadeena Dixon
Stella Assange
Yanis Varoufakis

On 4 March 2023, Australia will host the fifth sitting of the Belmarsh Tribunal.


Julian Assange, the Australian publisher who founded WikiLeaks, faces 175 years in prison if extradited from the Belmarsh Prison where he is currently held in the United Kingdom. Assange’s case is the first time in history that a publisher has been indicted under the US Espionage Act.


Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the Vietnam War, the Belmarsh Tribunal brings together a range of expert witnesses — from lawyers to journalists to parliamentarians, union officials, whistleblowers and human rights defenders — to present evidence of this attack on publishers, to seek justice for the crimes they expose, and to demand the Biden Administration cease this prosecution.

Since its launch in 2020, the Progressive International has hosted four Belmarsh Tribunals, convening parliamentarians and public figures in a virtual tribunal (2020), at Church House at Westminster (2021), in New York City (2022) and in Washington DC (2023). We have taken expert testimony from members such as Brasilian President Lula da Silva, whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi.


The Sydney chapter of the Tribunal will add a uniquely Australian voice to the global demand to free Julian Assange. On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the United States, there has never been a more important time to raise our voice in union. Julian Assange has spent nearly four years in the UK’s highest security prison. Now he must be freed.

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4 March — Saturday — 6:30 arrival for a 7pm start
The Great Hall — Sydney University

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Welcome

Chairs of the Tribunal

Nadeena Dixon

Gadigal Welcome

Mark Davis

Mark Davis
Co-Chair

Mary Kostakidis

Mary Kostakidis

Co-Chair

Members of the Tribunal

Bernard Collaery

Bernard Collaery

Bob Carr

Bob Carr

Bridget Archer

Bridget Archer

David McBride

David McBride

David Shoebridge

David Shoebridge

Dean Yates

John Kiriakou

John Kiriakou

Jennifer Robinson

Jennifer Robinson

Karen Percy

Karen Percy

Kelly Tranter

Kelly Tranter

Kerry O’Brien

Kerry O’Brien

Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Monique Ryan

Monique Ryan

Stella Assange

Stella Assange

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

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