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wait till the end of. the best occasion and. on to new links in the round and you'll. know when the rebound english an obligation gazing is another story and even more news in the rain unleashed. in many people's minds there's something suspicious about him and because he hasn't and he's run away from the war i think it would have been better had he gone to sweden because i think he needed is a change he's clear his name but. at the same time i completely understand why he didn't see the problem in sweden it's not a country where i understand the language of addition to a media climate has been set open in sweden. i think that if julian went to sweden at that point he would have been extradited he was often like mocked in the pres and people say ah he just wants to know as he doesn't want to face the music in sweden and so on and then said he's paranoid but
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i think from today's perspective and we really know now what the that the us us is really after him and i think he was. confronted with. the big thing that i think cruelly undermined the public support for julian was a swedish case obviously you would find the newspapers of high repute. television stations to doing julian in and became gratuitous. i think to be fair to say the mainstream old sound media never really liked chile and they didn't really like to him because his model publishing was a threat to their existence.
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there was a great deal of jealousy in the mainstream towards wiki leaks and torch and particularly why i wanted to be more like all. the one of ops. when they wanted access to commence they were then that. now they can even do you know great this little note with respect. in the moment they collided with him they took the information he had but then immediately let's say the next day you had a hit piece in the new york times from he was at that time who described him as a bag lady. he came immediately as something about his character. who i think is a betrayal it's
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a betrayal of principle. what do you think of the allegations that julia sanji is a direct quote from the new york times is that he's a narcissist with an outsized view of his own of organs and that he has no interest in monday matters like personal hygiene. really. i can't think of another journalist or publisher who has won a major international journalist wards. and for whom media organizations have complained about whether his socks were dirty or had been washed here i mean really. i wonder whether any single human being has been subjected to the memos. snooze. in
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the pots it was explode. into india live in a british court released a soldier on bail on condition that he didn't leave the country. he was also required to remain at the country house owned by a close friend the british journalist full in smith. i'm now sitting in a chair. and ingham. is a sort of house that is the products of wealth that my family has generated for hundreds of years my family moved terence 75. fortunate. to have that responsibility to go after. me it is an investing at the journalists and that's why our journalists and kindly offered these may be
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a secure place to be the place from what are the publications with me mate. p.c.l. say captain. phillips a just one country. it's always a bit safer to rebundle much safer i was here and though i knew i was young but as far as a few weeks ground is he certainly isn't about as good as. we hear leaks a basically turn this into office for quite a lot so you would have come in here and you'd have found people working on computers bits of paper printouts everywhere running around with little disks and things like this so that involved having julian it had involved having. the people work for him and involved having everybody who wanted to interview him but this was the main office this was machines courses.
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this is the place where really. a lot of work here later down the road also came to happen but i would say that the big here. the big publications for. cable gate they were conducted. wireless jordan was in house arrest and having them all. because it was so secret you'd be herons you see people working on computers and you know i wouldn't like office because it was you know you you know you'd be looked at and they had one don't you think oh gosh what a silly question washed off will bury them tell me if they want to tell me. i sold them release the afghan war logs i sold them working on the diplomatic. and i saw them working on some stuff that came off to the woods when they were here this is interesting. very hard to stop organizations like we. and the way please isn't going to be the end of it even if we disappear as which is no sign that it will.
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become a sort of guerrilla organization for freedom of speech. on the 1st the judy it was in the next year on embassy. the morning off to he went so that and the sikhs i read it in the news and realized that i had just lost my bail money. is this something that is the school and this selflessness gravity was like making sure he said listen you seem that way and it was. a. right. this is the ecuadorian embassy when q.b. and son to leave. maybe 7 gets them but sees only the one of the 2. so what you are looking.
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which was. julian's to move in the last. 5 minutes. out. to the songs they found it for me since refusing to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london is expected to make. the softening. we knew each other before he came to see. basically the possibility of tech team arrives from the friendship i was useless for so most. people. lead.
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people said yes. this is him 30. percent sophie during the embassy itself was small bits of flight. 300. 81st when they were some time to sort. the room just for the. building is surrounded by high buildings which does not allow for this sun. to come into them but julian compared he's stay at the embassy. to be leaving space because he was subject to only a few feet. and he never saw sunlight he didn't have. medical
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care there were huge challenges. the 1st years he was constantly on the surveillance there. and when you were in the embassy you could cost countries here and the people outside with the speaking on walkie talkie nearly no corner in the embassy where you watched. buildings we also hogs. all that's off. base was the last place. for many of us. continue to run we can experience staying at the ecuadorian embassy while within its walls many new publications and revelations came to light the highest profile exposing is probably the period in 2016 the year in which
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its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where is it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real. struggle. want to.
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believe that june in the sun to live in trouble. came from the fact that he put into the garbage the main some one of the d.n.c. leaks basically they were e-mails from democrats. on how the democrats to come. removed from. the. trial lawyers and. the country and them through prison which. was something that i think. american public it's really important about wiki leaks is that the russian government has engaged in espionage against america and then they have given that information to wiki leaks for the purpose of putting it on the internet.
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of a $2.00 and. you know me as which. is to convince us that this information was from russia well you know. i don't know whether he. told me it was. when they revealed. the crissy behind it and so want everybody. but when she lost the election everybody said like oh my god this was the reason why it happened because they needed some explanation. the
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reception of those cables. even this outrage. and these he may keep making stuff make a songe stop he came out of the embassy silence he got to keep. the years went by his situation became more difficult and difficult the pressure because bigger and bigger and then the government changed in ecuador i think the situation became really great. there was an election. berrendo lin became president. he was a great supporter of america still the. government decided to shift. going on foreign policy. decided to have the
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furnishings united states julianne was an obstacle for dot. com not going to get really sexy out of sites ok so it was local as you could see this. but a political reform but it must be. seized so he said this will be a political this is a similar and our government was to tell us that they had to get rid of him and turned his life into hell. turning away lawyers searching businesses and. installing cameras in every room and private meetings had to be holding the toilet not supplying toilet paper.
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and every cross supplying toilet paper just. for getting some of this paper. forgetting to bring fruit forgetting to bring if they forgot to bring food for julie and ben. doesn't leave. a space to live with it is. because it really made it. go i have to ask this because according to the security firm employees who are hired by the ecuadorian government julian was an extremely difficult guest himself but he could not be argued with the embassy staff a lot he neglected personal hygiene often left his bathroom and small kitchen. that. 18 months of the miranda you're talking about that's right. why is it that.
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the united states immediately filed an extradition request with the u.k. but it could not be considered until julian a son should serve in the months in prison for breaching the terms of his going to tension in 2012. just keeping to the dorrian embassy the wiki leaks founder was sent to belmarsh prison just outside london. prison or. high security maximum security prison where you're murderers and terrorists. berthold. belmarsh prison is said to be a worse place even than guantanamo. he is. denard the writer of fraternizing with all the person knows.
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he told me that when he sees people go past his cell he wishes he wished he could speak for one. i saw in those leaked media also great he appears to have a lot lost a lot of weight. when i saw that i really started crying because when you know someone very well and see him in in this position. i'm not allowed to hand him anything the only way of communicating with the outside world this time to save their heads. we were not sure if he wanted to communicate with journalists but here's a letter we have just received from belmarsh prison and it's from joel and i songes it says here on the back of. that letter reveals despair and
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frustration as the trial draws closer the wiki leaks founder says he has no internet or telephone nexus which seriously hinders his ability to prepare his own defense handle he has nothing much to do except walk thousands of laps per day around the cell. it's very distressing to. see someone you have worked with and who is an old friend. in such peril. to. think that they may not come out of it it's very upsetting. the charges that the u.s. government have raised against julian to extradite him have shifted. first
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they called him back and said that he had assisted manning in securing the information that manning wanted. bradley manning was a hand. in the armed forces and clearly was shocked by what was going on around him. bradley manning now chelsea manning. was the original whistleblower who gave wiki leaks them most important information the afghan war logs the film from the helicopter journalist going to. the diplomatic papers all came from abroad. the manning. the way the u.s. ministry of justice sees it julian assange is didn't just receive information from an informant which would not constitute a crime journalist do have the right to acquire information from sources even if it
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is classified the american government claims that assad conspired with private manning to help him access classified information intending to harm the united states. u.s. hopes to prove that the sound is a spy not announced. the charges they are absolutely applicable. to the times the other journalism or media publications. during the sanish being a publisher was put in prison for being a publisher for no other reason than being a publisher. where normal. there are no rules to the game. even really in turn a list in the united states should feel a comment a scene in and running down the response. at the charges that have been leveled against this publisher. because they could be next.
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they're julian. you are one of the most bravest person i know and this sentence that you'll get repeated often courage is contagious was really true. that's the reason for great movements and draws you'll have slobbered think of people. support and understand but there is. a wider issue at stake he is the lone he is not alone. there are a large number of people who value the contribution that's made. public interest. i've remembered you today and went into one another's famous
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when you were relatively free and i remember that you were just you know carrying his legal back. and having him very humble life. would look forward to a day well he's free and not being honest and. not being chased around the world by the americans. i hope that we can get you out of there. if you will be sitting next to us somewhere nice something water by deceit. would be like just just a bad memory. her . revel to thank you for.
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sentenced to death. they could charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for that week with his son of a $23.00. confined within 4 gray walls fine it's using. can all tell them to leave destroyed. today the stand the forest storage of the. worms in the
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spring. is here. waiting to be reached. turkish airlines. borders of wiki leaks founder julian assange kick starting a protest this afternoon demanding release from prison ahead of the big trial starting on monday. sera sera. to try and get him. to do in u.s. media claiming that russia is backing both the republicans and the democrats in the 2020 presidential election as an anonymous source of another alleged russian meddling campaign stateside.
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