Julian Assange and the Continuing Threats to Journalism
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Katharine Gun (Originally published at propagandainfocus.com) Also to be published by the Institute for the Public Interest Like millions of people, I woke up on the 25th June, 2024 to a tremendous piece of good news. Everywhere I looked online, everyone was cheering. Julian Assange was out of Belmarsh High Security Prison. He had been subjected to 1901 days or 5 years and 2 months of 23 hours a day mostly solitary confinement in a tiny cell. It feels like a paradigm shifting moment. Whilst it is obviously a moving and celebratory time for both Julian and his family as well as his wider supportive network, in actual fact, the paradigm shifting moment was when Mr Assange was targeted by the United States government for exposing their corruption and war crimes and other news-worthy information which the public is entitled to know in a “democracy”.
Julian Assange and the Continuing Threats to Journalism
Julian Assange and the Continuing Threats to…
Julian Assange and the Continuing Threats to Journalism
Katharine Gun (Originally published at propagandainfocus.com) Also to be published by the Institute for the Public Interest Like millions of people, I woke up on the 25th June, 2024 to a tremendous piece of good news. Everywhere I looked online, everyone was cheering. Julian Assange was out of Belmarsh High Security Prison. He had been subjected to 1901 days or 5 years and 2 months of 23 hours a day mostly solitary confinement in a tiny cell. It feels like a paradigm shifting moment. Whilst it is obviously a moving and celebratory time for both Julian and his family as well as his wider supportive network, in actual fact, the paradigm shifting moment was when Mr Assange was targeted by the United States government for exposing their corruption and war crimes and other news-worthy information which the public is entitled to know in a “democracy”.