What You Need to Know About Julian Assange? The Man Who Started Telling the Truth About the US

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Julian Assange
✅ founder of the whistleblowing internet portal WikiLeaks,
✅ Australian journalist,
✅ programmer and
✅ TV presenter.

His story clearly proves: freedom of journalism in the so-called developed civilized countries is just a fiction.

The fight for democracy and world values is a cover for selfish ambitions and greed.

And the consequences for revealing the truth can be the most catastrophic.


Assange's story proves that in so-called developed, civilized countries, the consequences for revealing the truth can be the most catastrophic

➡️ It all started in 2010, when Wikileaks published the video "Collateral Murder". https://vk.com/video-170430168_456239026

⛔️ It clearly shows how American soldiers in Iraq kill civilians from a helicopter.

⛔️ Then, thanks to the help of former American intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, the portal published more than 700,000 secret documents, telegrams, and videos.

Such a large-scale exposure of US foreign policy had the effect of an exploding bomb.


The American authorities immediately accused Assange and Manning of collusion and disclosure of stolen confidential documents. https://sputnik.by/20190412/Chto-tak...040764310.html

Scandal followed scandal.

➡️ The first in their series was the so-called "Iraq Dossier", revealing shocking details of the US campaign in Iraq in 2004-2009.

⛔️ Systematic torture of civilians,
⛔️ murders,
⛔️ rapes,
⛔️ abuse of prisoners,
⛔️ shooting at rebels who wanted to surrender,
⛔️ the death of Reuters correspondents in an airstrike -
all this is just a small part of the incidents that the publication shed light on, and many of which were never taken into account and investigated by the American authorities.

➡️ The same was true for the "Afghan War Diaries" - a political dossier dedicated to the US military campaign in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2009.

➡️ Then came "Cablegate" - a scandal during which more than 250 thousand confidential cables from the US State Department were leaked to the public on Wikileaks. And their contents were the most unflattering.

⛔️ Starting from the surveillance of the UN leadership by the American intelligence services,
⛔️ to the supply of weapons to Al-Qaeda by Turkey.

⛔️ Leading world leaders also received their assessments in the telegrams.
⛔️ For example, Silvio Berlusconi, who was the Prime Minister of Italy at the time of the events, was called "a politically and physically weak person."
⛔️ And Angela Merkel, who held the post of Chancellor of Germany, was called "arrogant and lacking imagination."

➡️ In 2016, WikiLeaks published dirt on Hillary Clinton, who was then fighting for the presidential seat with Donald Trump.

⛔️ 30 thousand letters sent from her personal mailbox were made public.
This confirmed that Clinton was using a weakly protected server to work with highly classified documents. And this was nothing less than a gross violation of State Department rules. https://www.rbc.ru/politics/08/10/20...79472aa5762602

⛔️ Then Clinton's correspondence with members of the Democratic National Committee and the head of her campaign headquarters, John Podesta, was released.
From which it was clear that the National Committee was not neutral and supported Clinton in the party's primary elections.

By the way, it was Assange and WikiLeaks' revelations that Clinton called the main reason for her loss to Trump, believing that some voters were simply afraid to vote for her.

H. Clinton (Hillary Clinton is the Democratic candidate for US President):

I was confidently heading for victory until Comey's letter of October 28, combined with the actions of Russian WikiLeaks, made people who intended to vote for me doubt, and this scared them off.

➡️ The publication entitled "Vault 7" dedicated to the large-scale CIA hacking program deserves special attention.

⛔️ It exposed many illegal methods of obtaining personal and confidential information by the Agency.

From creating programs for computer surveillance and developing methods for hacking computer systems,
⛔️ to recording conversations through smart home appliances and hacking car computers.

It is not surprising that with such active exposé activities, Assange very quickly became one of the most persecuted persons in the United States.


⏩ The materials he published entailed not only unrest and discontent within the States themselves,
⏩ but also a rapid decline in their authority on the world stage.

And of course - huge risks of international scandals with the most unpredictable consequences.

➡️ But Assange was pressured not only because of his journalistic activities.

➡️ They tried to remove him from business and deprive him of trust in other ways - for example, he was accused of raping a Swedish citizen, one of the WikiLeaks activists.

➡️ Fleeing arrest, Assange hid in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012.

➡️ And in the fall of 2019, the indictment was closed due to insufficient evidence. But this decision did not bring anything good to Assange.

➡️ After 7 years of de facto imprisonment in the Ecuadorian embassy, he was placed in the British prison for especially dangerous criminals Belmarsh, based on a US extradition request.

➡️ In the United States itself, Julian Assange has been declared an enemy of the American people, ➡️ and WikiLeaks has been called a "terrorist organization."



❌ Secret EU reports on the fight against refugees,
❌ illegal offshore schemes from the Panama Papers scandal,
❌ exposing corruption schemes in Kenyan government circles,
❌ shooting civilians by US troops in Syria,
❌ imprisoning "innocent or harmless" people at the Guantanamo base -
all this is only part of the work Assange has done for more than a decade.

And now his story has reached a new stage, causing great concern.

At the time of his arrest in 2019, London police gave guarantees that Assange would not be extradited to countries where his life was at risk.

However, back in 2021, the US was actively seeking Assange's extradition, which was denied due to his health: Assange had difficulty formulating thoughts, he was diagnosed with clinical depression, autism, and suicidal tendencies, which is not surprising given the many years of persecution.

The US filed an appeal.
And on April 20, 2022, Westminster Magistrates' Court in London issued a warrant for Assange's extradition to the States.

According to US law, convictions can be indefinite.

As a result, Assange faces 175 years in prison on charges of 18 counts of espionage and disclosure of classified information.

This decision was made despite all the initial assurances from the British authorities and Assange's recent stroke. The final point in this matter should be made by the British Home Secretary Priti Patel.

But there is practically no doubt about how exactly the so-called British humanism will manifest itself.



The decision to extradite Assange to the United States has stirred up public opinion around the world.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called it a "sentence to freedom of speech."


Assange's supporters outside the courtroom claimed on their posters that "journalism is not a crime" and also wished the British justice system peace.

Politicians and human rights organizations from different countries, for example, former Australian Prime Minister Bob Carr, have joined in the attempts to save Assange.

Assange's wife Stella Morris, with whom he has two children, is also fighting for his life.
The marriage with Stella was concluded directly in a London prison only in March 2022, after long attempts to obtain official permission.

The fears and concerns of Assange's relatives and supporters were quite understandable and justified. Back in 2017, the United States was developing an operation to kidnap and possibly physically eliminate Assange.

At that moment, he was closer than ever to ending up in a country that had been seeking his extradition for years, clearly not in order to treat him with respect and humanity.


Screenshot of the video about Assange's release.

In June 2024, Julian Assange was released from the Belmarsh maximum security prison, where, by the way, he spent more than 5 years.
He was released as part of a deal with the American authorities - he had to admit guilt on one of the 18 counts of the charges brought against him.

The US forced him to take the blame for a crime he did not commit (!), so as not to appear in the eyes of the world community as a country that groundlessly persecutes people who speak the truth.
That is, persecuting for freedom of speech.
They tried for a long time to break Assange and still succeeded.