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[-] ralphio@lemmy.world 99 points 2 years ago

Whatever you think of Assange, you should know why the US government wants to prosecute him. He published this among other things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8xhH0FkCQg

Context: that's a US gunship firing on Reuters journalists among other civilians including kids.

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[-] seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 68 points 2 years ago

Assange is a bit of a scumbag, but unrelatedly, his efforts for freedom of information should not land him in US torture prisons like many others.

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[-] spez_@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

The Australian government voted on a motion to bring him home. He is a journalist who did nothing wrong.

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[-] arymandias@feddit.de 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Luckily political dissidents don’t need to fear for their life/freedom in the west, ow wait.

Btw what is up with those rape charges, or did Sweden conveniently drop them the moment Assange was pulled from that embassy?

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[-] Saff@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I skimmed this title and thought it said he was found in a ditch. I’m surprised he has lasted this long.

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[-] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago

I really wish Assange had been able to escape the US torture regime, like Snowden was able to esaping to Russia. Years and years of suffering all because the Obama regime needed to "make an example" of whistleblowers.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago

Not even a whistleblower. A foreign journalist doing journalism.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

I misread the title and thought it said "found in ditch"

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