The whistleblowing news site Wikileaks is partnering with the London-based arts organisation a/political and the freedom of information organisation Wau Holland Foundation to present an exhibition next month which will include a physical copy of some of the top secret US diplomatic cables it leaked

“#FreeAssange(어산지를 석방하라!)”지난 16일(현지시간) 영국 런던의 서더크 대성당에서 열린 세계적인 디자이너 비비안 웨스트우드의 추도식에 수많은 유명인사들이 참석했다. 웨스트우드는 지난 해 12월 81세의 나이로 별세했다.그의 추도식에는 배우 바네사 레드 그레이브와 그의 딸 졸리 리처드슨, 헬레나 본햄 카터, 그웬돌린 크리스티, 엘 패닝, 뮤지션 그룹 듀란듀란의 사이몬 르 봉, 닉 케이브, 밥 겔돌프, 스톰지, 전 스파이스걸스의 멤버이자 현 디자이너인 빅토리아 베컴, 디자이너 폴 스미스, 모델 케이트 모스와 그의 딸

The public outcry over the Assange case is reaching a new pitch, writes John Rees.‘Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping floundering condition which is this High Court of Chancery’, wrote Charles Dickens in Bleak House.Famously he

"줄리안 어산지를 석방하라!"11일(현지시간) 오후 6시 영국 런던의 링컨스 인 필즈 광장에 ‘어산지를 송환하지 말라(Don't Extradite Assange)’ 캠페인 축제를 위해 약 2천 명이 모여 웨스트민스터 의회광장을 향해 행진을 했다.2010년 미국 정부의 범죄를 폭로하는 문서들을 공개한 어산지는 2012년부터 런던 주재 에콰도르 대사관에서 망명 생활을 하다가 2019년 대사관 건물 밖으로 강제로 끌려나와 체포된 이후 지금까지 런던 남동부에 있는 악명높은 교도소에 수감돼 있다. 그리고 거의 24시간 독방에 구금된

As Americans, we should be angry and disgusted that our government, and now the Biden administration, has been engaged in the persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange is a political prisoner. He has never endangered the lives of Americans, and there is no evidence otherwise.“He went

“The first casualty of war is truth!” said US Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California in 1929, during the debate on the ratification of the Kellogg-Briand pact, a noble but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to ban war. Reflecting on World War I, which had ended a decade earlier, Johnson continued: “It

Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky and others gave testimony Friday at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington, D.C., calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange.The WikiLeaks founder

It is time for President Biden to live up to his rhetoric on press freedom.As a candidate in 2020, Biden released a powerful statement on the importance of press freedom, writing:Reporters Without Borders tells us that at least 360 people worldwide are currently imprisoned for their work in journali

From Ankara to Manila to Budapest, state actors are crackin down on journalists, their sources, and their publishers in a globally coordinated campaign to disrupt the public’s access to information and shut off their sources of dissent.A landmark case in this campaign is that of Julian Assange, the

The European Union must take a “strong position” with the United States to secure the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, held in custody in Britain, his wife said Tuesday.The Australian publisher is the object of a US extradition request to face trial for divulging US military secrets abou