WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is currently the best-known imprisoned journalist in the world โ even though he has not been convicted of a crime. He has been in administrative detention in the UK’s most heavily monitored high-security prison, His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh, for an indefinite period since April 2019. Before that, he spent six and a half years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in political asylum.
On 27 May re:publica 24 spoke with Julian Assange’s wife Stella and expert Andy Mรผller-Maguhn about this complex case, Julian’s condition and current efforts to prevent his extradition to the US. The panel discussion was moderated by historian and journalist Michael Sontheimer.
Julian Assange is supported by renowned journalist and human rights organisations, but also by several Latin American heads of state and heads of government.