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Assange is free! We are here. The world is with you,
one supporter shouted before Assange entered the Council of Europe building early Tuesday Justice for me is now precluded as the U.S. government insisted on writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a Freedom of Information Act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request,
I eventually chose freedom over unrealizable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175-year sentence with no effective remedy,
the 53-year-old told the court hearing at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg Sadly, instead of prosecuting the perpetrators of the crimes so disclosed, the United States decided to prosecute the whistleblower and the publisher. Instead of convicting war criminals, they convicted the whistleblower and the journalist,
she told the hearing on Tuesday The priority for us as a family is for him to get better. Everything else is secondary,
The CIA's targeting of myself, my family and my associates through aggressive extrajudicial and extraterritorial means provides a rare insight into how powerful intelligence organizations engage in transnational repression,
It has to do with who is pursing him, demanding him to be convicted for 175 years in prison,
The U.S. First Amendment seems pretty black and white to me... Congress shall make no law restricting speech or the press,
It was truly exceptional that he came here today … He needs time to be able to recover,
Stella Assange told reporters after the committee hearing He’s only been free for a few weeks and we’re really just in the process of starting from zero, or from less than zero,
The rights of journalists and publishers within the European space are seriously threatened,
he told Pace’s committee on legal affairs and human rights, urging the assembly to act I pled guilty to seeking information from a source. I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I pled guilty to informing the public what that information was.”
Journalism is not a crime, it is a pillar of a free and informed society, ... The fundamental issue is simple. Journalists should not be prosecuted for doing their jobs."
The criminalization of newsgathering activities is a threat to investigative journalism everywhere. I was formally convicted, by a foreign power, for asking for, receiving, and publishing truthful information about that power while I was in Europe,
the WikiLeaks founder remarked As I emerge from the dungeon of Belmarsh, the truth now seems less discernible, and I regret how much ground has been lost during that time period when expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened, and diminished. I now see more impunity, more secrecy and more retaliation for telling the truth,
When powerful nations feel entitled to target individuals beyond their borders, those individuals do not stand a chance unless there are strong safeguards in place and a state willing to enforce them. Without them no individual has a hope of defending themselves against the vast resources a state aggressor can deploy,
It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo's explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of false information,
I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pleaded guilty to journalism,
Assange told the Council of Europe rights body at its Strasbourg headquarters in his first public comments since his release Freedom of expression and all that flows from it is at a dark crossroads,
he told the hearing of the PACE legal committee I eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice ... justice for me is now precluded,
Assange said, noting he had been facing a 175-year jail sentence
