Julian Assange’s mission was to change the world - but at what cost?

Lauren Said-Moorhouse Claudia Rebaza

Analysis by Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Claudia Rebaza, CNN

9 minute read

Published 1:01 AM EDT,Sat April 27, 2024

London

CNN

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Julian Assange started his WikiLeaks whistleblowing website on a quest for “radical transparency and truth,” a mission that turned an already polarizing personality into a notorious character and earned him crusaders and critics in equal measure.

The long-running battle for his extradition to the United States continued this month, with US lawyers providing the UK High Court with a series of assurances around the 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder’s First Amendment rights and that he would not receive the death penalty if he were handed over. Those are set to be reviewed at a fresh hearing on May 20.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/europe/julian-assange-profile-intl-cmd/index.html

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Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner calls on Joe Biden to release Julian Assange in letter handed to U.S. Consulate

By Paul Ainsworth

Belfast,April 27(RHC)– Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire has urged U.S. President Joe Biden to release Julian Assange from custody as the WikiLeaks founder faces being extradited to America.

Mrs Maguire, who co-founded the Peace People movement, wrote a letter to Mr Biden that was delivered to the US Consulate in Belfast by fellow Peace People member and activist Ann Patterson.

The appeal to the president was written as Mr Assange continues to fight against extradition to the US from the UK to stand trial on criminal charges relating to the leaking of military records.

The leaks on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were published unredacted on the Wikileaks website, and Mr Assange has denied the charges against him, claiming he was acting as a journalist.

The 52-year-old Australian national was last month granted permission by the High Court in London to appeal the extradition.

Mrs Maguire’s appeal to Mr Biden comes as the president said this month he was considering a request by the Australian government to drop the charges against Mr Assange.

The Belfast peace activist nominated Mr Assange for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, alongside American whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.

https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/internacionales/353303-irish-nobel-peace-prize-winner-calls-on-joe-biden-to-release-julian-assange-in-letter-handed-to-us-consulate

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Assange movie released yesterday, April 26, 2024

Join us for this powerful new Aussie film about the most famous political prisoner of our times.

Despite being detained, silenced and hidden from public view in maximum security Belmarsh Prison, multi-award-winning Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange has become one of the loudest voices for free speech of our times. He has also risked everything to bring truth to light.

The disclosures of WikiLeaks and Assange from 2010 onwards ignited a firestorm of controversy and a relentless ongoing pursuit by the most powerful Empire on the planet.

‘THE TRUST FALL: JULIAN ASSANGE’ examines the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved, the extraordinary personal risk taken by Assange, and the wider fundamental issues around press freedom that affect all of us and our right to know.

Filmed over two years on three continents and in ten cities, the film features an array of luminaries including Daniel Ellsberg, John Pilger, Tariq Ali and Chris Hedges, with the insights of experts including Jennifer Robinson, Jill Stein, Stefania Maurizi and Nils Melzer, in addition to reflections of Assange’s family including Stella Assange, John Shipton and Gabriel Shipton.

Examining the motives of this peace activist and innovator, this astounding, shocking and inspiring film invites viewers to embark on a journey of understanding, where the circumstances are unprecedented, and the destination unexpected.

“If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth”

• Julian Assange

Director: Kym Staton

Producers: Kym Staton & Natalia Minana

Editors: Endre Kvia & Richard Frankl

Year: 2023

Film duration: 128 mins

Rating: M (Mature themes and coarse language)

https://stayhappening.com/e/the-trust-fall-julian-assange-whakamax-movies-whakatane-nz-E2ISWKF3QEI

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