It is time for President Biden to live up to his rhetoric on press freedom.As a candidate in 2020, Biden released a powerful statement on the importance of press freedom, writing:Reporters Without Borders tells us that at least 360 people worldwide are currently imprisoned for their work in journali

From Ankara to Manila to Budapest, state actors are crackin down on journalists, their sources, and their publishers in a globally coordinated campaign to disrupt the public’s access to information and shut off their sources of dissent.A landmark case in this campaign is that of Julian Assange, the

The European Union must take a “strong position” with the United States to secure the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, held in custody in Britain, his wife said Tuesday.The Australian publisher is the object of a US extradition request to face trial for divulging US military secrets abou

Supporters of Julian Assange have welcomed Kevin Rudd’s appointment as Australia’s ambassador to the United States, saying they are hopeful he will use the position to press the Biden administration to drop espionage charges against the WikiLeaks founder.Assange remains in London’s Belmarsh prison i

President Joe Biden is pressing ahead with a controversial criminal case against Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Assange has been languishing in Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh prison for nearly four years while he appeals his extradition to the United States

The Biden administration has been saying all the right things lately about respecting a free and vigorous press, after four years of relentless media-bashing and legal assaults under Donald Trump.The attorney general, Merrick Garland, has even put in place expanded protections for journalists this f

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, who is battling extradition from Britain to the United States where he is wanted on criminal charges, has submitted an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the court confirmed on Friday.Assange, 51, is wanted by U.S. authorities on 18 counts, in

This resolution was adopted at the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), held from October 22 to October 25, 2022. Read the full report on the Congress here.1. The Socialist Equality Party resolves to redouble its fight for the freedom of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, hel

A new initiative for Julian Assange has been suggested by the Australian activists who organized a rally in front of the Prime Minister’s office in Sydney on October 15th: on December 10th , International Human Rights Day, we could gather in many places around the world to send thoughts of affection

A Spanish judge has asked the US House Intelligence Committee to provide information regarding the alleged surveillance of Julian Assange and his visitors during his seven-year-long stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.Judge Santiago Pedraz of Spain’s National High Court has filed a request for