Julian Assange SPEAKS OUT For First Time Since Freed From Prison

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In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses Julian Assange’s recent appearance before a European human rights group, reflecting on the toll years of imprisonment and isolation have taken on him. Greenwald emphasizes Assange’s vital role in defending free press and transparency, while highlighting the brutal conditions that have severely impacted his physical and mental health. He also criticizes the U.S. and U.K.’s legal systems, which, despite claiming to uphold democratic principles, have targeted Assange for his journalistic work.

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 3rd of October, 2024.

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020.