We live in an inverted, a perverted world. Julian Assange has uncovered war crimes as a journalist. But none of the criminals has ever been charged, let alone convicted. Instead, the man who revealed the crimes has been incarcerated for four years in inhumane conditions at Belmarsh High Security Prison in London. Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2016 to 2022, concluded that Assange has being tortured by this treatment.
Julian Assange has not been charged with any crime in the UK, elsewhere in Europe, or in his native Australia. He is in custody solely because the U.S. is demanding his extradition to face charges under a draconian World War 1 espionage act and imprison him for the rest of his life. But Assange is not a spy, he is a journalist and has acted as such. If he were extradited and convicted, it would set a dangerous precedent. Every journalist on Earth in the future would have to fear being imprisoned for life as a spy for revealing dirty secrets of governments. That would be the end of freedom of the press as we know it.
What is Julian Assange in prison for? He is in prison for showing the truth about our wars, in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. War and lies are very closely related.
— source scheerpost.com | Fabian Scheidler | May 5, 2023