“I AM NOT FREE TODAY BECAUSE THE SYSTEM WORKED, I AM FREE BECAUSE I PLED GUILTY TO JOURNALISM” – declared journalist Julian Assange in his first statement as a free man at Council of Europe after 14 years fighting Washington’s threat of extradition and more than 5 years of incarceration for exposing U.S. war crimes.
“The truth now seems less discernible, and I regret how much ground has been lost during that time period. How expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened and diminished
“I see more retaliation for telling truth, and more self-censorship. It’s hard not to draw a line from the U.S. government’s persecution of me, its crossing the Rubicon by internationally criminalizing journalism to the chilled climate for freedom of expression existing now.”— Julian Assange.
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