Assange: Why do they want to destroy him?

In a few days or weeks we will know whether the British justice system decides to extradite Julian Assange to the United States after the last hearing of the case last week. The High Court of London will decide whether the WikiLeaks founder can again appeal the judicial decision or whether his extradition, approved by the British government, is activated in 2022.

Assange is accused of 18 crimes including hacking, espionage and revealing secrets. If he is ultimately extradited, the Australian journalist, editor, programmer and activist faces up to 175 years in prison or even the death penalty, as Washington itself has recognized.

14 years have passed since the WikiLeaks scandal, the same amount of time that Assange has had to go through the judicial ordeal. While waiting for the decision of the British justice system, in this program we talk about a case that has become a paradigm in the fight for the right to information.

We talk to the London justice system about his potential sentence and what his chances of extradition are with the former judge and lawyer baltasar garzon, part of Assange’s defense team; And we analyzed the matter with the Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi, Author of “The Secret Power”. Why They Want to Destroy Julian Assange and WikiLeaks” (Akal Publishing House), which will be published in Spanish on March 4.

And we look forward to Assange talking about freedom of the press and other ideals in the world yolanda quintanaSecretary General of the Platform for the Defense of Freedom of Information (PDLI) and co-author of “Cyberactivism: New Revolutions of Connected Multitudes”.

We said goodbye to the trip to Colombia International Peace Brigade To listen to the “Voices of the Earth”. We talk about ‘false positives’ in the fight between the Colombian government and the FARC: how the state apparatus allowed the killing of innocent people in order to increase the number of dead guerrillas. sebastian escobar He is a lawyer for the José Álvare Restrepo Lawyers Collective Corporation, one of the groups that has condemned former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe for allowing these false positives.

In a few days or weeks we will know whether the British justice system decides to extradite Julian Assange to the United States after the last hearing of the case last week. The High Court of London will decide whether the WikiLeaks founder can again appeal the judicial decision or whether his extradition, approved by the British government, is activated in 2022.

Assange is accused of 18 crimes including hacking, espionage and revealing secrets. If he is ultimately extradited, the Australian journalist, editor, programmer and activist faces up to 175 years in prison or even the death penalty, as Washington itself has recognized.