Journalism is under trial and Julian Assange is the defendant

Britain likes to cultivate the image of a country which plays by the rules, but as the WikiLeaks’ founder’s extradition proceeding enters a crucial phase, the UK authorities are treating a journalist who revealed war crimes and torture as if he were a dangerous criminal. And yet revealing war crimes is the quintessential role of journalism in a democratic society.

03/03/2020 Community Civil Rights 0

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Journalism under trial?

Before the court, James Lewis QC, who acts for the United States, tries to convince the judge and the public that the United States is not putting journalism under trial. In reality, this is the first time in US history that a journalist has been charged with violation of the Espionage Act, a draconian law enacted in 1917 to punish spies who pass secrets to the enemy. And yet Julian Assange has never passed information to the enemy. Not even the American government accuses Julian Assange of having done so[…]

Lewis argues that WikiLeaks has put sources and informants who spoke to US troops or to the American diplomats […] at risk. The US government has been repeating this serious allegation against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for the last ten years, without ever providing a shred of evidence that such harm to the sources and the informants actually occurred. […]

British fair play or lawlessness?

[…]the United States is acting through the British authorities at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). […]

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