The WikiLeaks founder has made his first public appearance since being released from a UK prison WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged Eu
The WikiLeaks founder has made his first public appearance since being released from a UK prison
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged European lawmakers to act against rising « transnational repression » of journalism by great powers during an address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday. It was his first public appearance since being released from prison in late June.
Assange spent years locked up at a high-security prison in the UK as he fought extradition to the US, which had accused him of unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified information relating to national defense. In June, he struck a plea bargain with the US Justice Department, formally acknowledging some guilt and waiving the right to legal recourse through, for example, the European Court of Human Rights, in exchange for freedom.
« I want to be totally clear.
