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Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange
It’s long past time for the U.S. and U.K. to free Julian Assange.
His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is quite upset about it.
- Eve Ottenberg
- CounterPunch
Indeed, on September 19 at the United Nations, heads of state denounced this phony prosecution for the fraud and subterfuge it is – an assault on a free press, and an attack on Assange personally, for practicing journalism.
For over four years, this publisher has been left to rot in a dungeon in Britain’s notorious maximum-security prison, Belmarsh.
The reason?
Well, they might not admit it, but U.S. sachems want him crushed for embarrassing them, by revealing the…