This week the High Court in the UK has to decide
whether Assange's appeal succeeds or fails. Whether
he will be on a plane heading towards a potential
jail-term of 175 years in the US or finally released.
The current government has asked for him to be returned
home to Australia.

Assange faces 18 criminal charges for his alleged role in
obtaining and disclosing classified documents which
revealed details of US activities in Iraq, Afghanistan,
including attacks on civilians, the treatment of prisoners
in Guantanamo and clandestine activities in the Middle East.

Many have argued that all this has been an attempt to
punish Assange for exposing the truth and is an attack on
journalism.

Commentators have asked the valid question as to why the
media outlets who published Assange's material - outlets
like, The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, are
not also being pursued?

Has Assange been treated fairly? And has he already paid
and suffered enough? Do journalists have a responsibility
in what they should be allowed to publish

Dear Foxy,

«Has Assange been treated fairly?»

Have you not been seen outdoors with a mini-skirt and no face-cover?

Would it be fair if we therefore extradite you to Saudi-Arabia for breaking its modesty code?

Do journalists have a responsibility
in what they should be allowed to publish
Foxy,
That goes without saying !
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent "

He has never faced trial and has spent years evading justice. He has never expressed remorse for the people he brought harm to, nor acknowledge them. He did comment to some Guardian journos that if people were killed as a result of an unredacted WikiLeaks, them they had it coming to them. What an utterly revolting person. It would be an unconscionable act to release that piece of filth.

Yuyutsu,

I live in Australia not the Middle East so I don't
understand what you are trying to say. I'm not
Pauline Hanson - so I shan't be wearing a hijab any
time soon.

Also I do prefer to wear kaftans to mini skirts at my age,
And I do wear masks because of COVID.

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Dear Foxy,

«I live in Australia not the Middle East»

That was my exact point - neither does Julian Assange live, or ever lived, in America!

If any country is allowed to extradite Australian visitors to a third country even though they broke no laws of either Australia or the country they were visiting, then according to the same logic, that would allow Thailand to extradite you to Saudi-Arabia because you wore a bikini while visiting Thai beaches.

But then, arrogant Americans always consider themselves God's-chosen exception...

Why should an Australian citizen who opens an Australian bank account in Australia, be required to fill forms providing information to American tax authorities?

Why should religious Hindu DVD's made in India and purchased in Australia directly from India, have to carry an unskippable warning notice from the American CIA before one can start watching them?