Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is launching a new global communications campaign as part of its relentless fight for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. From October 18, media outlets…
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The Word – FREE Julian Assange – Special Edition
16 October 2023Special Edition – Free Julian Assange. Most people remember old Noah for building a big boat that bucked a flood. I find the story quite unsatisfactory, and wonder how he…
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The Word Peterloo 2022 special edition
7 August 2022Featuring 24 pages of news the mass media don’t want you to see. Our lead story this month commemorates the 16th August 1819 Peterloo demonstration where thousands of innocent people…
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UK officials were worried about public reaction to their hosting a media freedom event a few miles from Belmarsh prison, where Assange is still being held. The Foreign Office monitored…
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Fifteen years since Assange established WikiLeaks
4 October 2021Today marks fifteen years since WikiLeaks was founded by Australian publisher Julian Assange on October 4, 2006. In the years since, the small media organisation, founded on a shoestring, has…
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‘The Guardian’s silence has let the UK trample on Assange’s rights in effective darkness’ – excerpt
25 October 2020“The Guardian treated… its past association with Assange and Wikileaks more like a dirty secret it hoped to keep out of sight.”
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US bid to criminalise journalism mainly ignored by our politicians
7 September 2020The most important press freedom case of the 21st Century has resumed in London’s Old Bailey. The issue at the heart of it is blindingly simple: Should the US be allowed…