What’s at stake in the extradition of Julian Assange? – podcast
about 3 years in The guardian
After the UK home secretary decided to extradite Julian Assange to face trial and a possible life sentence in the US, Ben Quinn reports on what the ruling means for the WikiLeaks founder – and for press freedomFew public figures are harder to categorise than the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. To his fans, he is a fearless truth-teller, exposing state wrongdoing; to many governments, he’s a dangerous fanatic akin to a “digital terrorist”.But almost everyone will have read journalism based on leaks his organisation has published, whether it was the secrets files he revealed from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the decades of top-secret US diplomatic cables, details of the CIA’s hacking tools or the emails of the Democratic National Committee. Continue reading...