Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition | BBC News

[@adamjones7276]

Julian Assamge is a HERO to MILLIONS & MILLIONS WORLDWIDE. May the TRUTH ALWAYS PREVAIL WORLDWIDE

[@basiahellwich3505]

Not to me, if you dig a bit deeper into his narrative you will find he is of quite questionable character.

[@joaquinribeiro2941]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@basiahellwich3505

[@geoffbirchall7552]

Telling the truth is treated as treasonous now!

[@zainzoala1083]

No that is only with communist china 🇨🇳 and Russia 🇷🇺 , not in democratic countries like ours with freedom free speech and free press

[@_Phoenix3]

@@zainzoala1083 You must be joking😂

[@victorhugomindaarce4322]

At the end everyone Will be a slaves

[@bigtime9589]

Yes, why do you think they are dragging Donald Trump through the mud.

[@flavio1243]

​@@zainzoala1083and USA

[@BonsaiBlacksmith]

Australia, a commonwealth nation, whose parliament as requested Assange returned. Do the stand up thing Britain and give him to Australia.

[@zainzoala1083]

😂😂😂 Big Cowboy 🤠 USA 🇺🇸 “ He is wanted by us, he showed the world the truth of what we were doing.

[@As.11.11]

@@zainzoala1083so ovbs USA wants to kill him

[@fatimakay9488]

Please truth speakers should be freed

[@gooden1005]

Ha ha real funny ​@@fatimakay9488

[@obsidianjane4413]

@@zainzoala1083 That isn't why he's wanted by the US.

[@20FreeWill]

Free that man . Free the Truth . Free the People

[@Nurse_Diesel]

Free Hat!

[@DetroitMicroSound]

Assange is a Russian asset.

[@book_worm22]

Yea free him right into CIA custody. They’re more than equipped to…well, handle him. As they should.

[@20FreeWill]

@@book_worm22 why do you say that ?

[@book_worm22]

@@20FreeWillwhy do I say he should be released to the CIA. Because his actions proved that he is an enemy of the state and he should be dealt with accordingly. The CIA is the perfect group to handle him with their black sites and all.

[@Ophelia_6002]

"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals." **Edward Snowden**

[@Ella-zd4gp]

Look where Snowden is at now. The country that kills anyone it wants. All countries have blood on their hands!

[@public.public]

@@Ella-zd4gp Two wrongs don't make a right. WE the West are supposed to be better.

[@MadDragon76]

Comparing Edward Snowden to this man is genuinely pathetic. One actually bothered to consider *the *consequences of his actions, the other only cares about publicity. While I believe Snowden was right, allowing him to get clear of it sets a dangerous precedent. He's safe either way. Assange only cares about himself.

[@faithingod5533]

@@public.public Stop talking crap you buffoon.

[@BandM-bx2hi]

Snowden is a traitor and was a spy, so I wouldn’t use him as an example. He is now in an authoritarian country that will imprison or murder him if he doesn’t comply with the leader’s wishes. He forfeited a lot for his ignorance of the “game” that Putin played on him.

[@zainzoala1083]

He is 🇦🇺 Australian and Australia requested his release. So simply release him and let him go wherever he wants to go with his Australian passport.

[@rytisgluoksnys4505]

Prison yard will be enough, jail the traitor.

[@Genessyss]

​@@rytisgluoksnys4505you are a littlle confused man. JA never swore an oath to the US, so he cannot be a traitor. Clown!

[@DestroyerOfLiberals]

@@rytisgluoksnys4505Technically he's not a traitor - he's neither American nor employed by the US government. US gov is just super butthurt that he released a bunch of their dirty secrets.

[@srenjensen2836]

@@rytisgluoksnys4505 #RussianMentality

[@fatimakay9488]

Free this man honesty best policy

[@sueyourself5413]

No politician should be allowed to talk about Navalny when Assange is in our prison, dying.

[@ruprect8858]

Assange needs to grow some, he bred those children and now he has to be a stand up guy and stop thinking about himself. That is what fathers are supposed to do.

[@catherinekrzan6605]

Assange worked with GRU. Assange is the opposite of Navalny.

[@sueyourself5413]

@@catherinekrzan6605 I don't know what gru is. Assange published documents that were leaked by whistleblowers. Regardless of what country they came from. It's just the countries who pretend to be good that care. Russia just pretends to be Russia.

[@kootenayjoel]

@@HenryJasonVargaAssange is not a criminal either. He released information that was provided to him.

[@CricketEngland]

@@kootenayjoeldidn’t have to publish it though He has nothing but himself to blame

[@Esther-cc9ip]

JUSTICE and FREEDOM for Julian Assange ‼️UK the world is watching

[@onetruecasey]

Julian Assange is a derranged animal and a threat to global stability. You are not some keyboard warrior, you're a sheep.

[@cheese-power]

The US: Do this! The UK: Yes, sir!

[@jeanpierrechoisy6474]

The two countries have almost the same language. With a few major exceptions. The translation of the American "ally" is in English: "obedient and servile valet".

[@pessi6185]

👉🏿🐩👈🏿 Britain's role to the USA 🤮

[@MadDragon76]

​@@jeanpierrechoisy6474 *A state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose.

[@book_worm22]

And?

[@skidaddleunable]

​@@MadDragon76no shit sherlock

[@SP4NK4Y4NK]

He’s not a criminal. What is criminal is the fact he’s been held in solitary for 2 years

[@Ophelia_6002]

5 years actually

[@SP4NK4Y4NK]

@@HenryJasonVarga if he’d stayed in the US he’d have ended up like aaron swartz

[@obsidianjane4413]

@@SP4NK4Y4NK You know Chelsea Manning, the one who leaked the docs in the first place, only served 7 years.

[@aintnohighenough]

​​@@obsidianjane4413 it's because his case is more heavy because he is the one who spread it to the public.

[@public.public]

@@SP4NK4Y4NK I believe there is a very real danger of that happening.

[@kostask8851]

Revealing the crimes of the powerful is a very bad idea, even if its a 100% true. Considering the way they go after people who don't comply with their version of events, I am not very optimistic about his release. This has nothing to do with justice its all political.

[@ringostar4904]

We never saw it coming did we? The vile tentacles of the Zionist Agenda and their lobby groups, strangling the Western nations of their decency. On the front page is 'Profits before People' instead of Truth and Justice

[@3s0t3r1c]

What are you talking about, he did a crime.

[@anacc3257]

Pretty sure most countries got laws against people who illegally receive info and release it to undermine the security of whole nations and compromise sources/informants, so it's not like it's a clear cut case even if some of the exposed info may be valuable to the public. Institutions would collapse if there was no trust and if everyone were allowed to break laws and rules within it

[@lorenzogcapra]

@@3s0t3r1c what crime?? drink less propaganda

[@pessi6185]

Western Warmongering Establishments should face justice not Assange for telling the truth & exposing their Crimes!

[@MaxSlippyFist]

100% they will roll over and do as they are told. There is zero possibility of this appeal being successful

[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

well they kept him in London for a long time already so who knows... if they were just lap dogs of the US he'd been there already yknow. so there is a chance.

[@howdan1985]

Good that's exactly what we want. Get him on a plane to the US as soon as possible.

[@MaxSlippyFist]

@@howdan1985 which 3 letter organisation are you with 🤣

[@howdan1985]

@@MaxSlippyFist I'm with NTK ("Need To Know") 😂

[@castlerock58]

@@howdan1985 You should respect your own constitution. Your Supreme Court ruled in the Pentagon Papers case that publishers had a first amendment right to publish top secret documents leaked to them by a source. Assange is a publisher who published classified documents leaked to Wikileaks by Bradly Manning. The documents were not top secret like the Pentagon Papers were. Assange broke no US law. The argument over whether Assange is a journalist is a red herring. He is certainly a publisher and the first amendment was written to cover publishers. Journalists are just employees of publishers. Assange is both and has won awards for journalism but this case is about the fact that he published documents that Manning leaked to his website. The Pentagon Papers case was about the right of the publisher of the New York Times to publish the top secret documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg. The first amendment does not allow the government to distinguish between government approved publishers and unapproved publishers. The first amendment covers all publishers. Any American judge, who is not corrupt will dismiss this case. Unfortunately corruption is spreading among US and British judges as the rule of law and freedom of the press die.

[@yolokwolo]

Double standards at display. We all mourn Alexey Navalny, but we keep a blind eye regarding Julians case. Shameful

[@diegomorata2885]

The west is showing the world why democracy doesn't work😂

[@catherinekrzan6605]

Assange worked for GRU. Assange is the opposite of Navalny.

[@srenjensen2836]

@@catherinekrzan6605 Both Assange and Navalny were critics of the ruling class in their respective countries. If you can't see the similarity you must be completely blind.

[@yolokwolo]

what does GRU mean?@@catherinekrzan6605

[@Elfdustify]

@@srenjensen2836 It seems it's you who's blind.

[@franceslynch8815]

Julian should be sent home to his family. He has suffered so much. As a journalist, if he's sent to the U.S. he will suffer immensely. The U.S. have vengeful state prosecuters..look at their horrific death penalties. Julian is a journalist and he was informing the world of the horrors of war. We need people like him.❤

[@journeysalkebulan]

agreed!

[@andresd6193]

He is not a journalist, he is nothing more than a Russian agent working for Putin. If he is a journalist, how come Wikileaks never published anything about all the horrible things that Russia and Putin do?

[@margaretwilson8736]

He has suffered by his own choice which is not how justice works. If I dip into my doomsday bunker it doesn't count as going to jail.

[@TheHermitProcess]

Not horrors of war, horror of the American military and their atrocities.

[@franceslynch8815]

@@margaretwilson8736 Vengence.

[@bair8655]

Freedom of speech one of the cornerstone of democracies equally persecuted on east and west...

[@rytisgluoksnys4505]

There is freedom of speech and there is your enemies stealing secrets from you and using some idiot to spread and legitimize their spy work against you disguised as freedom of speech. You see freedom of speech, Russians see opportunity, think why wikileaks had only west leaks? :)

[@YvonneSchwartzYVON]

It was theft of documents

[@koloni2862]

He stole ..ur wokeness is why the UK is about to fall to jihadist and Islamist

[@faithingod5533]

@@YvonneSchwartzYVON You think he stole documents handing to him?? hahaha.. How dumb are you?

[@tickledeggz]

Yeah lets be real, wheteher we agree with the law or not, he did do the thing he being accussed of.

[@imagepeace]

As an American, I stand with Julian and freedom of press! Free Julian Now! 🌬️✨💜✨⚖️

[@book_worm22]

We dont care who you stand with you treasonous swine. Hes not getting freed

[@UnDaoDu]

Sad week for two men who spoke truth to power!

[@ThefutureisantiZionists]

Set the man Free. FREE ASSANGE ‼️

[@buffalosoldier4045]

Free julian

[@onetruecasey]

Julian Assange should be treated as the terrorist he is and sent to Guantanamo, permanently.@@buffalosoldier4045

[@alkazeicer9616]

Hope for Julian 🤞🤞🤞

[@martysmith5260]

I thought he was supposed to be extradited about 10 years ago, so I wouldn't hold my breath!

[@paulg451]

Would you support it?

[@mira5196]

Australia please free Julian Assange 🙏

[@TEMPLAR969]

Australia 😅😅😅😅😅

[@didntlistendad]

Australia hasn’t imprisoned him though??

[@cazza6944]

US citizens need to wake up to this threat to thier 1st amendment and pressure their government

[@didntlistendad]

@@HenryJasonVarga I was referring to his current situation only, as I have followed only that. I looked him up- ok a 1996 prosecution for hacking- no mention of the harm caused to others, if any. Can’t speculate on what might happen in the future- re Oz legal action against him. I am puzzled to hear him called a journalist or editor at least wrt the US material from Chelsea Manning. Although I can see why he might want the same protections afforded that profession. All he did was put other people’s material online, and although it had security risks for others when posted unredacted. Didn’t people die as a result? All quite confusing.

[@MadDragon76]

​@@HenryJasonVarga So because his offenses weren't against that country he shouldn't be held accountable? You people sound like the Russians. We have an extradition treaty with Australia as well as the UK. If Australia managed to do what y'all want any criminal in Australia could flee to America and we would never give them back. Y'all seriously want to compromise international relations between 2 gigantic countries over this man?

[@robbie9629]

Five years in Belmarsh on remand. Five years and he's not been found guilty of any crime. It's clear the US want him for political reasons and the UK (by our own laws) should not extradite anyone for political reasons, extradition should only take place between the UK and the US if there is a credible accusation of a crime having been committed.

[@nightowlorder2750]

Law does not apply to politicians and elites. They can do whatever tf they want.

[@happyjonn9242]

It was his choice to hide in the Embassy to avoid a trial in Sweden, it was his choice to fight extradition to the US instead of just facing up to a trial. the only hold ups have been from his choices.

[@AB-wl8kr]

​@@happyjonn9242 Oh my sweet summer child, he would have died in a supermax already.

[@PWB06]

@@AB-wl8kr el chapo is still alive in supermax

[@AB-wl8kr]

@@PWB06 Yeah, but the US never conspired to kill el chapo. 🤡

[@johnmuthan286]

Free Assange! Uk should be ashamed of their actions

[@absmith6237]

This is the price you pay for unveiling the deep state war crimes slaughter .

[@OhisGeorge-e8j]

UK is more concerned with fighting for freedom of speech and rebellion in Russia than respecting the rights of Assange and others.

[@mollybolton8425]

UK has always been USA's little patsy

[@rorycarroll9870]

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@MrMarshmelloBoi]

If he loses his appeal, the Australian government should intervene in this complex case.

[@Grunchy005]

Yes Australia has a duty to hire him a lawyer or something. “Why,” nobody can say.

[@yushamush9849]

They'll keep their nose out if America wants them uninvolved

[@bloodlove93]

will Australia step on the USA for that though?

[@UnrealBenji]

Free Assange. Free the truth.

[@geoffbirchall7552]

Free Julian Assange!

[@Nurse_Diesel]

Free hat!

[@book_worm22]

Yea free him right into CIA custody!

[@duncanbedford4765]

Release Julian Assange now ❤

[@public.public]

Free Julian Assange. Don't extradite Assange.

[@HzHz]

Free Mr. Assange.

[@cepheus3139]

" He is a Political prisoner " His wife , this case is political motivated, Mr. Julian Assange should Free.

[@HenryJasonVarga]

Didn't he break a bunch of different laws?

[@Genessyss]

​@@HenryJasonVarganope. Not every country is bound to follow USA law.

[@cepheus3139]

@@HenryJasonVarga I have never heard about that but we human beings less or more break sometimes laws, but it doesn't mean we're criminals.

[@book_worm22]

@@Genessyssisn’t espionage illegal in every country though? Would i be allowed to h.ack and release the British government’s secrets and just go free without consequences? And trust me your country has just as many secrets as mine.

[@Genessyss]

@@book_worm22 I mean sure every country defined spionage of it's own secrets as illegal, but not other country's secrets. I haven't seen for example CIA agents being arested by the US gvt for spying activities they did against Rusia. Feel me? Also JA never spied on anyone.

[@davidcarruth1317]

Free him, this circus has gone on to long already, ridiculous behaviour

[@timeisoverjesusiscoming6996]

ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH ......😢

[@catherinekrzan6605]

Outing the identity of assets and putting their lives at risk is hardly "freedom of speech".

[@public.public]

@@catherinekrzan6605 Covering up war crimes is innocent?

[@MadDragon76]

So if I gave Putin the launch codes it would be freedom of speech too?

[@MadDragon76]

​@@public.public who said that? No one here but you.

[@TheMadNation]

​@@MadDragon76Well thats what he did. He exposed crimes done by US army.

[@titicaca-fx9cs]

Set him free!

[@ArunKumar-iz3do]

Stella A is such a loyal n brave woman...bravo

[@rikomagyar7850]

Freedom of information, speech, freedom to Julian. Was eanough from this nonsence jailings..... //

[@themanwnoname3454]

“Been that way for 30 years.” - U.S. Justice Department on the lack of Human Rights in Oklahoma County Jail, 2020 “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela 🥂🥂

[@journeysalkebulan]

I absolutely agree! Madiba we still love you! ✊🏾✊🏾

[@book_worm22]

Oh please! Lock him up

[@gfys756]

​@@book_worm22Lock you up, fascist.

[@caviarandcrumpets]

Whatever you do the truth will always reveal itself! Free Assange now!

[@Sarahyangtoronto]

Why is this still going in this free world??

[@nightowlorder2750]

Because this is not "The Free World".

[@user-zo5dr2qe4x]

Free Assange

[@jaispartacus]

FREE ASSANGE!!!

[@Nurse_Diesel]

Free Hat.

[@Acolis]

to put it in the most simple terms - NO

[@book_worm22]

Yea free him right into US custody

[@DetroitMicroSound]

He's a Russian asset.

[@querty985]

​@@DetroitMicroSound bullshit

[@markmd9]

Ask the King to free Assange. He can do that.

[@geoffbirchall7552]

The king is part of the global cabal!

[@markmd9]

@HenryJasonVarga you give false accusations he didn't do. He just opened a site where anonymous persons can publish information that they consider should be shared with the public. A LOT of corrupt politicians were exposed through those leaks. If they want to accuse someone, they should find the source.

[@Desertfox18]

​@@HenryJasonVarga He revealed personal details of crminals. If giving information about criminals to the public is a crime, then what to expect from the justice system? Those criminals should face justice, not Assange.

[@ivorojvar]

​@@HenryJasonVarga bootlicker

[@PAllen74]

​@@geoffbirchall7552 what are you on about?

[@jafaralsafi3435]

Julian Assange representative of whole Freedom and human beings! But what happened to him ? Oppressed

[@HenryJasonVarga]

Publishing confidential information (including personal details of many people) is not freedom, it's a crime. Just the release of the Turkish papers alone are in themselves a serious crime and violation of people's rights. The personal information of thousands of Turkish women was leaked. Not acceptable, sorry. Please don't support crimes against women.

[@phuonghau6490]

Maybe you want to read about him first and the time he lived in Ecuador embassy before we continue the discussion.

[@Kickboxer77]

We have too protect this guy .

[@ronaldwheeler6060]

From the US: Speaking or exposing the truth in any country can get you in prison.

[@castlerock58]

Not in countries with freedom of the press. The US is in transition from one with a free press to one without. It is also a transition into tyranny. The US is starting to look alarmingly like Germany in the early 1930's. I say that with reluctance since any argument involving the Austrian guy who looked like Carlie Chaplin, tends to nose the argument. If you look at the steps by which he turned a democracy with civil rights in to the worst tyranny in history, it is worth noticing some ominous actions by western democracies in the last few years. This is one of them. In Canada, Trudeau tried the same move as Hitler did after the Reichstag fire. They both invoked emergency powers. The difference was, in Canada, there was enough push back that Trudeau backed down. In Germany, Hitler governed by decree under those emergency powers until he shot himself in 1945. If there is no push back by the US courts in this case, the US may no longer be a true democracy or a free country. From there, it is a short distance to hell. Germans had a brief window of time to stop Hitler and they missed it. We are in a similar window of opportunity in the US. UK, Canada and other Democracies. We can't depend on any genetic difference between us and Germans to protect us from tyranny. It depends on what we do. Things have only gotten this dire in the Assange case from people in the US and UK having their heads up their asses for the last decade. If he loses his rights under the US constitution, so will all Americans. All Americans should remove their heads from their rectums and speak out.

[@jeanpierrechoisy6474]

This should be reason enough for a diplomatic clash between the UK and Australia, with the EU supporting the latter.

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

Truth-tellers are silenced, while the liars have their voices amplified📢 Free Assange!!!

[@Thereis406]

​@@HenryJasonVargacriminal for what exposing the US world war crimes😡😡

[@ItalMiser117]

nah. for releasing state secrets. and what war crimes exactly? name me one@@Thereis406

[@book_worm22]

@@Thereis406a criminal all the same. And while you are running your mouth about my country it behooves me to inform you your government isn’t any better. ESPECIALLY if you are British. The things your government does and has done would make your hair stand up

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

@@HenryJasonVarga Assange is in prison for telling the truth.

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

@@HenryJasonVarga "When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals." ~ Edward Snowden

[@lamestreammedia3154]

The similarities to Nalvany are frightening. But BBC and the rest just wont aknowledge it.

[@catherinekrzan6605]

Assange worked with GRU. Assange is the opposite of Navalny.

[@Genessyss]

​@@catherinekrzan6605you're just a copy-paste troll, spewing lies. go away

[@anacc3257]

Navalny had nothing in common with Assange. Different intentions, different countries and both accused for very different things. Navalny wouldn't have died if he lived in a western country.

[@lorenzogcapra]

@@catherinekrzan6605 with the GRU?? OMG take care of your neurons

[@kevinpillay6103]

How so?

[@Time12345A]

Free Julian Assange 💙 ❤️

[@flowerpunkchip]

Press freedom must not die. Free this man.

[@benjoe999]

Another freedom fighter

[@rytisgluoksnys4505]

Another traitor who used Russian stolen secrets to spread them online. legitimize and profit of them you mean?

[@xo121w]

this man should not be extradited

[@xo121w]

@@HenryJasonVarga he isn't us citizen. Piss off yaakees

[@xo121w]

@@HenryJasonVarga he isn't us citizen!!

[@BandM-bx2hi]

@@xo121wso if you’re not an American it’s okay to to publish classified documents?

[@xo121w]

@@BandM-bx2hi absolutely. its journalism. and in many countries its LEGAL! last I checked UK nor his citizenship country dont have any cases against him

[@book_worm22]

@@xo121wshaddup!! Thats a lie. If I were to do what he did to the UK I would be locked up so fast my head would spend. Hes a criminal that should be shipped to Guantanamo

[@Miiike03]

If people are imprisoned for telling the truth, what does this say about the people in power?

[@gooden1005]

If you speak the truth you are 💀💯

[@soulstar2401]

Free the truth❤Free the symbol❤ Free Assange❤

[@catherinekrzan6605]

Assange was a GRU collaborator. That's a fact.

[@Ophelia_6002]

​@@catherinekrzan6605fact?😂😂😂 what is your evidence?

[@faithingod5533]

@@catherinekrzan6605 Another clueless muppet

[@Loki-sk7bi]

Free Assange!

[@kevinjenner9502]

All the best to the legal team suing the CIA and Mike Pompeo on behalf of Julian Assange.

[@stephenmurphy2212]

In decades to come, Julian Assange will be/should be remembered as a hero by historians. 🙌 He’s one of the few people brave enough to call out western hypocrisy. 👊 There may even be a political ideology named after him (Assangeism?).

[@ruprect8858]

Stay turned, you could be in for a surprise.

[@Contextualiser16-tn8nd]

He's a rapist, misogynistic self entitled prima dona

[@mollybolton8425]

Western hypocrisy has been known since 1776

[@getout2441]

The Australian government and the citizens of such a country should protest against the extradition of Julian assange. Juliun assange got my back because it is about the freedom of speech, and no body should be put in prison for saying the truth

[@Pallasathena-hv4kp]

When Wikileaks broke, Assange was a hero to me. Let him go home.

[@DetroitMicroSound]

Assange is a Russian asset.

[@book_worm22]

Oh so because hes a hero to you and a few other slow people we should just let him go free? Absolutely not! And if it was up to me id lock his supporters up too

[@mollybolton8425]

Wikileaks isn't broke; it's alive and kickin'

[@gfys756]

​@@book_worm22I used to wonder how the nazis came to power in 1930s Germany. Then I saw/heard fascists like you, and it all made sense.

[@beonfly1111]

🌟 "WHEN THE SIMPLE ACT OF TELLING OR REVEALING THE TRUTH IS NO LONGER A CRIME, THE WORLD WILL TRULY HAVE CHANGED" ... ! "AMEN" !

[@firebrand3515]

Free Assange. Stand against hegemonic exercise of power. Truth should prevail.

[@Jormunguandr]

Nostalgic, been many years since I heard about him.

[@billkingston4402]

The truth hurts

[@Micbop]

"Honesty is such a lonely word" in the immortal words of Billy Joel

[@HAE777]

Free Julian Assange NOW . America should never go after Julian Assange under the 1st Amendment!

[@PythonesqueSpam]

This isn't about Assange putting lives in danger as the US government claims. They could easily counter such a proposed threat, off the top of my head, by putting in place their own version of WikiLeaks for whistleblowers to post their evidence anonymously which could then be used to mitigate and even negotiate the release of such information. Their failure to do this exposed their disingenuous justification, as does their willingness to chill journalism and free speech in matters of public interest through malicious prosecution, to obfuscate their immoral actions.

[@Grunchy005]

You know what would be delicious irony is he fights extradition for so many years, then he gets sent there and they give him something ridiculous like 90 days suspended sentence, or like a $5000 fine, or not guilty on some technicality. That would be absolutely priceless! Because it seems to me the lady who actually stole the information might be free already? I have to admit I don’t reallly know much of what this case is about.

[@mattamontana6967]

FREEDOM FOR JULIAN ASSANGE NOW

[@dxd42]

SHAME on jornalists ... For the silence in assange case. You know VERY well that every investigative journalism are in danger because this can create a precedent.

[@anaxcontadora]

Free Assange!! Free Assange!! Free Assange!! Free Assange!! Free Assange!! Free Assange!!

[@C01A60]

How is this a thing in the freeworld?..😢

[@longforgotten4823]

Free him

[@johjohn8744]

George Orwell - 'In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.'

[@yunghoprincelysafeh8199]

Accusing someone of journalism signals the end of freedom of speech. Horrible

[@BIBIWCICC]

Why is the UK judicial system being controlled by the US. I understand the judge is married to a director of a defence firm that has lucrative contracts with the USA, when this was brought up she didn’t excuse herself from the case, why? Also the CIA was exposed as having eavesdropped on Assange privileged conversations with his lawyers, in the case of Watergate in the US the two reporters had the same done to them and the judge rightfully threw the case out. Why has this not happened in the UK as the same laws apply?

[@wandaalabarces5177]

As an Australian citizen, why isn’t he extradited to his country?

[@montsbar8558]

because he commited crimes in other countries

[@book_worm22]

Because he didnt commit espionage against Australia now did he? So no we want him here.

[@montsbar8558]

@@book_worm22 yeah, but he was cought elsewhere, so he'd be kicked off to Australia once he's been jugged, and if condemmedd, after his time in prision

[@adrianpeters2413]

What in jail in u.k. for not breaking the law in u.k. power to Assange... well said his wife all truth said ... he is up against the imperialist terrorist powers here ..GOOD LUCK AND POWER TO YOU ASSANGE ...

[@Camilla_Kudrin]

Free Assange!!!

[@markdowding5737]

UK: "We condemn the Russian government's treatment of Alexey Navalny, a fighter for freedom and democracy who sacrificed his life doing the right thing. Russia must be held accountable!" "OK, can you release Assange now?" UK: "-------"

[@catherinekrzan6605]

Assange worked with GRU. Assange is the opposite of Navalny.

[@markdowding5737]

@@catherinekrzan6605 what's GRU?

[@Thereis406]

​@@catherinekrzan6605comment bot

[@Elfdustify]

@@markdowding5737 Google it.

[@KingCobraStunts]

​@markdowding5737 the clandestine portion of Russian Special Forces.

[@bheenabbubuker4279]

What about free speech. Do the right thing. Set him free. Do not repeat what Russia did to Nalvany.

[@cherylannebarillartist7453]

In looking up the history, and understanding the skew that organizations can only have, I’ve come to this question: where IS the line between espionage and reporting? And IF or when any military is conducting illegal acts, what measurements of safe procedure can be taken so as not to compromise national security and to bring about a proper investigation? If we’re going to be “outraged”, shouldn’t we go beyond the noisy soundbites???

[@sammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm]

that is the real journalist jobs to investigate any illegal acts within the military but not a military officer steals the classified document and releases to the public and use freedom of speech as defecance. that's not how it works from my understanding of freedom of speech

[@gfys756]

​@@sammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmManning leaked the documents. Assange only published them. Besides, exposing war crimes was the right thing to do.

[@grahamthompson2594]

Outrageous behaviour from the British government. No charges but prison for years.

[@russianforforeigners777]

Do not put into a line Assange and Navalnyi. Navalnyi is a payed opposition traitor, and Assange is a journalist who recovered the truth and fought for the truth

[@kofiafrikan1236]

He is innocent. Leave him alone. He was just telling the truth. Shame on the so called democracy.

[@stephenlaw7228]

Americans want him deporting so they punishing but when we wanted that woman who killed that kid a couple of years ago she fled to America that's where she lived we asked America to send we can punisher they they said no so why can't we say no

[@nicholasjames6763]

She got 8 months in prison with suspended sentence for 12 months what a total joke and a slap in the face for the family and never went to trial in england

[@STdoubleDs]

English?

[@JJRM8]

​@@STdoubleDsCIA.

[@book_worm22]

So? Did she release your country’s state secrets or what? If not thats a bad comparison

[@nicholasjames6763]

@book_worm22 no he was comparing the deporting situation has nothing to do with the crime in which was committed. And he makes a good point she killed a young boy and he released some secrets whats worse and she has gotten away with it so no justice let's hope Assange gets some

[@wildandbarefoot]

5 years in Belmarsh. Because he showed the world the truth during a rotten war.

[@Mizztree23]

FREEE JULIAN NOW!!!!!

[@trevorsutherland5263]

Time to pay up!

[@querty985]

Pay what up

[@MsSherlock69]

Assange is a real hero, not Navalny 😮

[@fredo1070]

So imprisoned opposition leader Julian Assange is about to be extradited to the USA. What a wonderful democracy we live in.

[@catherinekrzan6605]

Assange is neither an "opposition leader" nor a journalist.

[@fredo1070]

@@catherinekrzan6605 Neither was Navalny.

[@Elfdustify]

@@fredo1070 Navalny was both actually.

[@MadDragon76]

​@@fredo1070 The Russian government acknowledged the fact he was an opposition leader on multiple occasions, are you saying the Kremlin was wrong?

[@enoshsubba5875]

Julian did the right thing. We expect the british govt also to do the right thing.

[@lilkillars]

Yet the uk acts like it respects the rule of law but we have seen this case turn into an absolute farce, the police cordoned him at the behest of the us government because they are embarrassed, what did he do other than report on he’s findings. He’s had false accusations used to corner him it’s absolutely shameful

[@kirkgardner2002]

Yes he needs to be brought back to the US, he is a trader.

[@teflerchina.2987]

Wikileaks also has documents relating to Navalny and his association with the N.E.D

[@vietashroffoliver2521]

Stop persecuting good journalists. Julian Assange should never have been put in prison. He's a great investigative journalist. Free Assange Now

[@jessicachadwick9457]

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE HERO FROM BELMARSH PRISON UK 🇬🇧

[@freedombro]

Let this man out already! 🇨🇦👍

[@loki7641]

Germany ... please Free Julian Assange !

[@diegomorata2885]

I would rather die then to go in prison