WikiLeaks: Julian Assange: Strong performance in Strasbourg

A sign of encouragement for whistleblowers and journalists worldwide was Julian Assange’s statement in Strasbourg. After 14 years of bondage, including four in solitary confinement in London, after character assassination campaigns and threats to his life by US services, it was feared that the founder of the disclosure platform Wikileaks would withdraw from public life forever after his release in June. He couldn’t be blamed.

But he let the world know on Tuesday that’s not the case. He said what was true: that his release did not result from due process, but that he had to plead “guilty” of making US military crimes public in order not to have to die in prison. If the Human Rights Council of the Council of Europe calls for the Assange case to be investigated, as many members have called for, this would be an acknowledgment that his persecution violated freedom of the press and that whistleblowers should be intimidated.

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