Stella Assange defends right to 'speak freely'
"It's about the right to be able to speak freely without being put in prison," says Julian Assange's wife Stella outside the London High Court where a hearing for his final appeal against extradition to the United States is underway. The hearing opened in the absence of the 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder who "is not feeling well", according to his lawyer Edward Fitzgerald. Assange is facing trial in the United States for publishing secret military and diplomatic files.
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00:00 [crowd chanting]
00:10 The United States has taken a politically motivated prosecution against a journalist because he exposed them committing crimes.
00:23 And so what's going on inside this courtroom is to determine how the extent of the cover-up.
00:30 It's only a handful of us in that room, but you know what the stakes are. You understand what this is about.
00:37 It's about you, it's about us, it's about the public's right to know.
00:42 It's about the right to be able to speak freely without being put in prison and hounded and terrorized by the state.
00:50 WikiLeaks has been used as evidence in the European Court of Human Rights and other foreign courts to expose state criminality.
01:03 The United States is abusing its legal system in order to hound and prosecute and intimidate all of you.
01:11 [crowd chanting]
01:16 Cut!
01:16 [BLANK_AUDIO]