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In solidarity with journalists in Palestine
Reporters covering the ongoing assault of Gaza and Lebanon are under unprecedented attack. The Israeli military has killed more journalists in Palestine than in any previous war. Press freedom groups are speaking out.
The Courage Foundation has helped organize a coalition of news outlets, press freedom groups, and more than 100 journalists to coauthor a letter to the U.S. State Department, condemning U.S. complicity in the Israeli killing of Palestinian journalists covering the ongoing assault in Gaza and Lebanon. The U.S. must immediately cease sending weapons to Israel in light of the country’s widespread killing of Palestinian reporters and refusing entry to foreign press, a clear attempt to shield their actions from public scrutiny.
Read more about the coalition and our letter to U.S. Sec. Antony Blinken →
Julian Assange is free!
Finally, after 5 years of abusive conditions in a maximum security prison, and after a dozen total years of arbitrary detention of one kind or another, WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is finally free.
Courage has campaigned against the persecution and prosecution of Assange since our inception, from our liveblog monitoring developments leading up to his arrest in 2019 to organizing and leading Assange Defense, the U.S. campaign to spread awareness about the danger Julian’s prosecution posed to the First Amendment and to help secure his release.
After 5 grueling years of activists campaigning around the world, lawyers fighting for his rights in various jurisdictions, and Assange’s own personal fortitude surviving brutal conditions in prison, he is finally free, back in his home Australia.
Read more about Julian’s freedom here, the campaign victory here, and the full support site here→
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News
- “Journalists must be activists for the truth” — Julian Assange testifies before the Council of EuropeAddressing the public for the first time since before his arrest in 2019, Julian Assange spoke today before the Legal and Human Rights Committee of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly about his prosecution, detention and imprisonment.
- Assange to address Council of Europe human rights hearingOn Tuesday, October 1, Julian Assange will give testimony before the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, ahead of a full plenary debate on this topic the following day. The hearing, which is open to the press, will be livestreamed.
- Julian Assange is free!!Julian Assange has been released from Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.
- Press freedom groups call on Biden DOJ to drop Assange charges“We urge you to drop the appeal of the decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court to reject the Trump administration’s extradition request. We also urge you to dismiss the underlying indictment.”
- Defend Media Freedom: Julian Assange on #HumanRightsDayToday, International Human Rights Day, the Courage Foundation partnered with a coalition of European press freedom groups to publish an advertisement in The Times to spread awareness about and condemn Julian Assange’s persecution and prosecution.
- World Press Freedom Day: The Prosecution of Julian AssangeVideo: On World Press Freedom Day, two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and the UK Bureau Director for Reporters without Borders discuss the Trump administration’s indictment of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and its unprecedented charges of Espionage for the publication of truthful information in the public interest.