Julian Assange it's time for the truth

If his appeal fails this week, the WikiLeaks founder could find himself on a plane for a possible 175-year prison sentence.

Inside London's packed Crown Court, two high court judges will hear WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's arguments that he should not be taken from Belmarsh maximum security prison to stand trial and possibly be sentenced to 175 years in prison.

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From prison Belmarsh will be taken to the US, where he faces 18 charges for his role in obtaining and disclosing classified documents.

The documents revealed details of US activities in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as attacks on civilians. They also revealed details of US treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, as well as links to illegal activities in the Middle East.

Earlier this month, in an unrelated case, former CIA officer Joshua Schulte was sentenced in New York to 40 years in prison for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks.

A key aspect of Assange's prosecution that has emerged is the attempt by US authorities to get journalists critical of Assange, often controversial figures, to testify against him.

At least four well-known journalists have been approached by the Metropolitan Police on behalf of the FBI: James Ball, a former colleague at WikiLeaks who is now at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, David Leigh a former reporter for the Guardian and the Observer , Heather Brooke, a freedom of information advocate, and Andrew O'Hagan, who had been commissioned to write Assange's autobiography.

All of them refused to cooperate with the FBI. In an article for Rolling Stone last year, Ball said he was first approached in 2021 and pressured beyond belief, culminating in the threat of prosecution himself.

O'Hagan stated that despite his differences with Assange, he would gladly go to prison rather than help the FBI.

In a British Journalism Review article last year, Leigh wrote: "Unlike the US military, he [Assange] has no blood on his hands." He added last week: "It is incredibly cruel and unnecessary to punish Assange in this way."

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