Why isn't Julian Assange a free man? | Stella Assange | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 3
Channel: ReasonTV
Date: 21/12/2023

Stella Assange discusses the imprisonment of her husband Julian Assange on episode three of Just Asking Questions

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Transcript and links here: https://reason.com/podcast/2023/12/19/why-isnt-julian-assange-a-free-man/ ‎

1:00 - What are the conditions of Assange's imprisonment?
2:32 - What's the emotional toll been on Stella and their kids?
7:34 - What does Stella think of the Sweden sex charges against her husband?
21:31 - Is Julian Assange an egomaniac?
28:53 - Why do so many in the US media hate Julian Assange?
39:00 - Did Assange work with Russia during the 2016 election?
47:19 - Did Wikileaks' release of the "Collateral Murder" video help end the Iraq War?
53:59 - How will history judge Julian Assange?
57:20 - Will Biden drop the extradition against Julian Assange?

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Julian Assange was arrested outside England's Ecuadorian embassy after Ecuador's president revoked his political asylum. The U.S. unsealed an extradition request outlining Espionage Act charges, and U.K. authorities moved him to London's Belmarsh Prison in April 2019, a maximum security facility where inmates are held in small single cells. Amnesty International has drawn parallels between Belmarsh and Guantanamo Bay. Reports and statements from doctors emerged quickly after his imprisonment testifying to his deteriorating mental and physical health. 

Stella Assange—an attorney specializing in international law, a human rights activist, and the wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, with whom she has two children—joined Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on episode three of Just Asking Questions to talk about the toll that imprisonment has taken on Assange and his family. They also discuss the threat to freedom of speech that the United States' Espionage Act case against Assange poses, why she believes that the Swedish sex charges against him were bogus, and why many in the U.S. media seem hostile to Assange and WikiLeaks.