Since 11 April 2019, Julian Assange has been held in the UK’s notorious Belmarsh prison that was once known as Britain’s Guantanamo Bay. This year marks his fourth year inside Belmarsh for revealing the US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Julian Assange is an Australian journalist and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks broke one of the most important stories of the last decades on the war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan when they published a series of leaks by US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. In this conversation, Suchitra Vijayan talks about the incarceration and persecution of Julian Assange with lawyer and human rights defender, Stella Assange. The conversation was originally held as a Twitter Space session and has been edited for length and clarity.
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Suchitra Vijayan (SV): Since 11 April 2019, Julian Assange has been held in the UK’s notorious Belmar’s prison that was once known as Britain’s Guantanamo Bay. This year, he begins his fourth year inside Belmar for revealing the US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Julian Assange is an Australian journalist and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks broke one of the most important stories of the last decades on the war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan when they published a series of leaks provided by the US Army intelligence analyst, Chelsea Manning. Joining us today to talk about the incarceration and persecution of Julian Assange is lawyer and human rights defender Stella Assange. Stella, thank you so much for joining us. Stella Assange (SA): Thank you for having me. SV: The case of Julian Assange is absurd. Can you start from the very beginning? What is the…
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