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‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalists (www.indexoncensorship.org)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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"It is undeniable that the intrinsics of Julian’s case are so shocking it is something one would expect from the worst dictatorships," Stella Assange says.

"A thin patina of ‘process’ cannot obscure the fact that he is facing 175 years for groundbreaking journalism, that the only agencies who will decide on the conditions and degree of isolation that he will be held in if he is sent to a US prison, pre- and post-trial, are the same agencies that were elaborating plans to kill him while he had political asylum at the embassy, that is to say, the CIA,“ she added.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The promise of WikiLeaks was exposure of wrongdoing, anywhere. Assange ran it as his personal score-settling service to help Russia.

Small man wants to run his own personal foreign policy he can rot in prison for all I care.

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@deegeese

The promise of WikiLeaks was exposure of wrongdoing, anywhere. Assange ran it as his personal score-settling service to help Russia.

The US war crimes in Iraq back then didn't help Russia as much as the Russian war crimes in Ukraine now don't help the US. Both are crimes against humanity. It is impossible that they 'help' anyone.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're referring to all the shenanigans before the 2016 election when they decided to release a bunch of hacked info on Dems while holding back anything critical of Republicams.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also while coordinating and conspiring with the Trump campaign on Twitter DMs.

In fact, "shenanigans" is far too soft a word for what they did.

[–] pbjamm@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

There are no heroes in this story, only villains.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

his own personal foreign policy

Assange is an Australian.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, so why was he trying to influence the US Presidential election through selective leaking?

Fuck Assange with a rusty spoon.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm just pointing out that he doesn't have any more allegiance to US foriegn policy than any other non-American has.

If you have a problem with people trying to influence election results in other people's countries, then you should have just as big a problem with the CIA as you have with Assange.

I'm far from being a fan of his but I am a fan of human rights and this whole thing has been a travesty. And something I notice a lot is the sentiment that Assange should have been loyal to US interests.