Assange 'persecuted for exposing true cost of war', says wife
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00:00 I find this astounding. Five years into this case, the United States has managed to show the court that their case remains an attack on press freedom, an attack on Julian's life.
00:16 What the courts haven't agreed to look at is the evidence that the United States has plotted to assassinate Julian, to kidnap him, because if it acknowledges that, then of course he can't be sent to the United States.
00:42 Julian is a political prisoner, he is a journalist, and he is being persecuted because he exposed the true cost of war in human lives.
01:00 This case is a retribution, it is a signal to all of you that if you expose the interests that are driving war, they will come after you, they will put you in prison, and they will try to kill you.
01:21 Julian is just a few days away from the fifth anniversary of his arrest and imprisonment in Belmarsh prison.
01:33 He has been in Belmarsh for five years without conviction, and the charges against him are to punish him for publishing the truth, for publishing evidence of the war crimes committed by the country that is trying to extradite him.
01:53 Now the UK courts have invited the United States to issue assurances. The Biden administration should not issue assurances, they should drop this shameful case that should never have been brought.
02:06 Julian should never have been imprisoned for a single day. This is a shame on every democracy. Julian is a political prisoner, he is a publisher, and he is being published for expressing his political opinion, for expressing freedom of the press in its purest form.
02:29 Free Julian. I ask everyone to rally behind him and call for his freedom, call for the Biden administration to drop the case and support House Resolution 934 before the US Congress to drop this case. Thank you.