Release Julian Assange!!
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian activist who founded Wikileaks in 2006.
Wikileaks is well known for having published in 2010 leaks coming from a member of the US Army Intelligence, Chelsea Manning.
These leaks included videos about military missions of US army in Afghanistan, Bagdad, and Iraq.
After the 2010 leaks, the US launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks.
In November 2010, Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for Assange over fragile sexual assault allegation.
After that, he breached bail and took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in June 2012. There he was granted asylum in August 2012, on the grounds of political persecution, with the presumption that if he were extradited to Sweden, he would be eventually extradited to the United States. Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation in 2019, saying their evidence had "weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question".
During the 2016 U.S. election campaign, WikiLeaks published confidential and compromising emails of some members of the Democratic Party, showing irregularities related to the party primaries.
In March 2017, WikiLeaks published documents testifying senior CIA officials discussed potentially kidnapping and assassinating Assange.
On 11 April 2019, Assange's asylum was withdrawn following a series of disputes with the Ecuadorian authorities. The police were invited into the embassy and he was arrested. He was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison.
On 23 May 2019, the United States government charged Assange with Espionage and The United States government unsealed an indictment against Assange related to the leaks provided by Manning.
Editors from various newspapers, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, criticised the government's decision to charge Assange under the Espionage Act, characterising it as an attack on the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees freedom of the press.
On 4 January 2021, UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled against the United States' request to extradite Assange and stated that doing so would be "oppressive" given concerns over Assange's mental health and risk of suicide.
On 6 January 2021, Assange was denied bail, pending an appeal by the United States.
On 10 December 2021, the High Court in London ruled that Assange could be extradited to the US to face the charges.
In March 2022, the UK Supreme Court denied Assange permission to appeal.
On 17 June 2022, Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition.
On 1 July 2022, it was announced that Assange had formally appealed against the extradition order.
Assange has been confined in a prison in London since April 2019.
I personally consider a hero whoever put their life in danger for a good cause, like he did.
Julian Assange should be considered as a freedom of speech advocate, and we are watching a clear Political persecution.
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Don’t let him spend any further unfair day in prison!
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