Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the United States. Assange faces 175 years in a US super-max prison on the basis of claims by Donald Trump’s administration that his exposure of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan amounts to “espionage”. The charges against Assange rewrite the meaning of “espionage” in unmistakably dangerous ways. Publishing evidence of state crimes, as Assange’s WikiLeaks organisation has done, is covered by both free speech and public interest defences. Publishing evidence furnished by whistleblowers is...
Full ArticleThe Guardian Is Silent About the US Using the Paper To Jail Assange
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