Press Freedom & Julian Assange - with Ray McGovern, Deepa Driver & Mo Elmaazi
Channel: Consortium News
Date: 2021-03-04

Learn why dozens of leading human rights and free press organisations are calling on the new Department of Justice to drop the charges against Julian Assange.

“The indictment of Mr. Assange threatens press freedom because much of the conduct described in the indictment is conduct that journalists engage in routinely—and that they must engage in in order to do the work the public needs them to do. Journalists at major news publications regularly speak with sources, ask for clarification or more documentation, and receive and publish documents the government considers secret. In our view, such a precedent in this case could effectively criminalise these common journalistic practices.”

Freedom of the Press, ACLU, Amnesty International + 20 additional signatories.