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3 days ago · Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, entered a guilty plea last week for allegedly violating the United States’ notorious 1917 Espionage Act; he was forced to do this in order to finally walk in fresh air after 14 years of confinement. The last five were in London’s Belmarsh prison, which Judge Ramona V. Manglona, who freed him last week ...
12 hours ago · Manning also provided a video that went viral on its release, showing US helicopter gunships firing on a group of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, killing eight people. WikiLeaks called the video “Collateral Murder.”. Manning was convicted of 17 charges under the Espionage Act and sentenced to 35 years’ imprisonment.
2 days ago · In recent years, the narrative surrounding whistleblowers and their impact on press freedom has garnered significant global attention. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, remains a prominent ...
1 day ago · For an innocent person to plead guilty is not a capitulation. It is an act of courage and wisdom. The fact that Julian Assange has pleaded guilty to practising journalism, to following the activities that the profession demands, guarantees his freedom but allows his persecutors to play perversely with the freedom of the press and, in the future, to find legal ways to bury the truth.
1 day ago · “We’ve averted a press freedom catastrophe,” Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said. “The indictment … charges Julian Assange with ...
2 hours ago · Max Blumenthal, editor at Grayzone News, dismissed these accusations, coming out strongly for Assange and those who worked for his freedom: Many high-profile people deserve credit for mobilizing in Assange's defense, especially when the corporate press was destroying his reputation, smearing him as a Russian asset and rapist to cultivate ...
4 days ago · A lower court judge earlier this year refused an American request to extradite Assange to the U.S. to face spying charges over WikiLeaks’ publication of secret military documents a decade ago ...
