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Assange’s Rights and Press Freedom Hang in the Balance
The deadline for Julian Assange’s fight against extradition to the United States looms, as British judges will decide his case on February 21.
Meanwhile, the American demand that Wikileaks publisher Assange stand trial in Virginia on trumped-up charges is what has kept this journalist locked up in Britain’s maximum security Belmarsh jail for four years, and sequestered for refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London for seven years before that.
- Eve Ottenberg
- CounterPunch
Back then, Assange predicted Washington would try to extradite him, but his fair-weather friends in the press pooh-poohed this worry.
Guess who assessed U.S. judicial aggression correctly?
Hiding from the…