Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks - a website that published secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources - was arrested on April 11, 2019, on charges of helping U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning access and leak more than 700,000 classified military docuмents that portray the U.S. government and its military as reckless, irresponsible and responsible for thousands of civilian deaths...
the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010)
the Iraq war logs (October 2010)
a quarter of a million diplomatic cables (November 2010)
the Guantánamo files (April 2011)
The Collateral Murder leak included gunsight video footage from two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters (below video) engaged in a series of air-to-ground attacks while air crew laughed at some of the casualties:
Among the casualties were two Reuters correspondents who were gunned down after their cameras were mistaken for weapons and a driver who stopped to help one of the journalists.
The driver's two children, who happened to be in the van at the time it was fired upon by U.S. forces, suffered serious injuries.
This is morally wrong...
It shouldn't matter which nation is responsible for these atrocities:
there is no defense for such evil perpetrated in the name of profit margins and war profiteering.
In true Orwellian fashion, however, the government would have us believe that it is Assange and Manning who are the real 'criminals' for daring to expose the war machine's seedy underbelly.
Since his April 2019 arrest, Assange has been locked up in a maximum-security British prison - in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day - pending extradition to the U.S., where if convicted, he could be sentenced to 175 years in prison.
Whatever is being done to Assange behind those prison walls - psychological torture, forced drugging, prolonged isolation, intimidation, surveillance - it's wearing him down.
In court appearances, the 48-year-old Assange appears disoriented, haggard and zombie-like.
"In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonize and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law," declared Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture.
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