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Our 52-minute documentary "Guardians of Truth: #JulianAssange and the Dark Secrets of War" now on the @DeutscheWelle Documentary YouTube channel in English.👇 A film about war, pain and truth. Don’t miss it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PYIyq6…

Happy Birthday! Secrets lost their safest place: the certainty that nobody would ever see them.@wikileaks made sure of that. @JulianAssange made sure of that. And for that, on this twentieth birthday, we are profoundly grateful! Read our new sub-article! assangearchives.substack.com… #wikileaks #julianassange #assangearchive

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Proud to speak in support of #JulianAssange & @pace report that calls out the chilling effect his imprisonment has had on press freedom. I had to remind @pace members that Britain has a long history of denying political prisoners. #Assange #PACE

Mel ⁦@Yiasemide⁩ ´s reflections after Julian’s speech She is a reporter, still she couldn’t enter as press, nor as visitor since the links to register didn’t work. She captures Free Assange activists, documents almost all what happens around Julian’s cause. Thank you Mel.

In Strassbourg for the #ParliamentaryAssembly of the #CouncilOfEurope (PACE)  for my newspaper, @fattoquotidiano  I can hardly convey my emotion to see how fast he's recovering, how articulate his speech at PACE

You Saved Julian Assange: Julian Assange was not released because the courts defended the rule of law and exonerated a man who had not committed a crime. He was not released because the Biden White House and the intelligence community have a conscience. He was not released because the news organizations that published his revelations and then threw him under the bus, carrying out a vicious smear campaign, pressured the U.S. government. He was released — granted a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department, according to court documents — in spite of these institutions. He was released because day after day, week after week, year after year, hundreds of thousands of people around the globe mobilized to decry the imprisonment of the most important journalist of our generation. Without this mobilization, Julian would not be free… This sustained pressure — during a London hearing in 2020, to my delight, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser of the Old Bailey court overseeing Julian’s case, complained about the noise protestors were making in the street outside — shines a continuous light on injustice and exposes the amorality of the ruling class... These people are unsung and often unknown.  But they are heroes. They move mountains...They shamed the politicians in Australia to stand up for Julian, an Australian citizen, and finally Britain and the U.S. to give up. I do not say to do the right thing. This was a surrender. We should be proud of it. I met Julian when I accompanied his attorney, Michael Ratner, to meetings in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Michael, one of the great civil rights attorneys of our era, stressed that popular protest was a vital component in every case he brought against the state. Without it, the state could carry out its persecution of dissidents, disregard for the law and crimes in darkness…. The decimation of civil liberties has shackled us, as Julian warned, to an interconnected security and surveillance apparatus that stretches across the globe... The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Hannah Arendt writes in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.”…This constant surveillance and personal data waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant. The object of all totalitarian systems is to inculcate a climate of fear to paralyze a captive population. Citizens seek security in the structures that oppress them. Imprisonment, torture and murder are saved for unmanageable renegades such as Julian. The totalitarian state achieves this control, Arendt wrote, by crushing human spontaneity, and by extension human freedom. The population is immobilized  by trauma. The courts, along with legislative bodies, legalize state crimes. We saw all this in the persecution of Julian. It is an ominous harbinger of the future. The corporate state must be destroyed if we are to restore our open society and save our planet. Its security apparatus must be dismantled. The mandarins who manage corporate totalitarianism, including the leaders of the two major political parties, fatuous academics, pundits and a bankrupt media, must be driven from the temples of power. Mass street protests and prolonged civil disobedience are our only hope. A failure to rise up — which is what the corporate state is counting on — will see us enslaved and the earth’s ecosystem become inhospitable to human habitation. Let us take a lesson from the courageous men and women who took to the streets for 14 years to save Julian. They showed us how it is done.

“Thank you for the huge sacrifice you made for the rest of us” @RogerWaters on Julian Assange's Freedom

🔴JULIAN ASSANGE EST LIBRE ! Quelle nouvelle fantastique ! C'est la fin d'un calvaire judiciaire inqualifiable, d'un enfermement inhumain, d'années d'immenses souffrances pour lui et ses proches ! Pensées pour celles et ceux qui sont encore illégalement enfermé·es : tenez bon !