The Free Press Case of Our Lives

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This is the free press case of our lifetimes. And it's not just about julian. Julian's case is going through the uk. Uk Courts right now. It's going to go to the high court. There are issues that are presented, such as the equivalents between the us Espionage act and the official secret ect. This is setting precedent for the scope of press freedom in this country,. Think about the implications of having an extra territorial secrecy law effecting someone who is working in the U.K., who wis publishing alongside u k press. Do you see that it would make it almost impossible for governments to function in that kind of environment?

Freddie Sayers meets Stella Moris, lawyer and wife of Julian Assange.

The case of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who published huge troves of sensitive government documents and classified military logs, has been going on for over a decade. During that time Assange has been under house arrest, hidden from extradition inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London and since 2019 has been held in Belmarsh prison. During that time, he has married and had two children with a lawyer called Stella Moris. Moris first met Assange as a young lawyer working on his case, but is now a campaigner for his acquittal and an activist for press freedom.

Will Assange be remembered as a pioneer of the free internet or as one of its victims? With his extradition case looming, UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers met Stella Moris to hear her case for her husband, Julian Assange.

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