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Journalists and Activists Gather in DC, Call for Assange’s Release on 4-Year Anniversary of Arrest
The event took a bizarre twist when a man with a newly-inked tattoo reading “Free Assange” stripped off his clothes and doused the ground with gasoline in an apparent attempt at self-immolation. Horrified onlookers could be heard screaming before CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou leapt into action and talked the man out of the gruesome stunt.
Footage of the incident shows the man, who was later arrested, screaming, "do you know what he's doing in there?" before a visibly-angry Kiriakou, who was jailed for two and half years for exposing the CIA’s torture program responded: "I do – I went to prison!"
The strange turn of events led former Veterans for Peace President Gerry Condon, whose speech was briefly interrupted by the situation, to caution that while "desperate times inspire desperate actions, we should all think about what we can do that’s not self-destructive… to make a strong statement for the truth.”
"This case is about the First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of the press," said the CIA whistleblower, who pointed out that "if Julian Assange goes to prison, then all of us are liable to go to jail."
But according to retired CIA analyst Elizabeth Murray, the potential ramifications don’t end there.
Citing public statements of support from international human rights organizations, major mainstream papers, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, and Argentina, "the US is becoming an outlier, not just because of things like de-dollarization or the way things are going" in Ukraine, "but because of its attitude toward Julian Assange.”
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IT WAS UNDER TRUMP'S REGIME THAT ASSANGE WAS FALSELY CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE.....
MEANWHILE THE US CONSTITUTION:
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"INTERVIEW: Donald Trump is not a paragon of Sunday school virtue but the charges against him are absurd and political says US attorney Robert Barnes shredding the case.....
- By Gus Leonisky at 12 Apr 2023 - 3:14pm
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Several Democrats in the House have penned a letter calling for the immediate release of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, urging the Department of Justice to drop its charges against the publisher and halt extradition proceedings aiming to bring him to the US to face prosecution under the World War I-era Espionage Act.
The group of progressive lawmakers, known as ‘the Squad’, addressed their letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary since Assange’s 2019 arrest, saying the charges against him represent a serious threat to the free press.
“We write you today to call on you to uphold the First Amendment’s protections for the freedom of the press by dropping the criminal charges against Australian publisher Julian Assange and withdrawing the American extradition request currently pending with the British government,” the lawmakers said.
They went on to cite warnings from a long line of human rights, civil liberties, and press freedoms groups – among them the ACLU, Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Defending Rights and Dissent, and Human Rights Watch – which have argued Assange’s case poses “a grave and unprecedented threat to everyday, constitutionally protected journalistic activity.”
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