Is this the end of the Assange story?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In return for a guilty plea, Assange becomes a free man and will not face being sent to the US, having already served almost 5 years in a British prison.
On this episode, Niall Paterson is joined by Alex Rossi, our international correspondent, to discuss the timeline of Assange's fight against extradition to both the US and Sweden.
Plus, joining Niall is Vaughan Smith, founder of Frontline Club and a friend of Julian Assange, who shares details from the times he saw him at the Ecuadorian embassy and Belmarsh prison – they talk about what Assange’s next steps could be.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:04.6 | To some, he's a crusader for truth, a whistleblower who shone a spotlight on the murkier aspects of the US wars in Afghanistan |
| 1:12.3 | and Iraq. To others, he's little more than a hacker and a criminal and one who needlessly put |
| 1:18.2 | lives at risk by disseminating confidential information. To all, however, he is Julian Assange, |
| 1:24.7 | the founder of the website Wikileaks, who is now making his way home to Australia |
| 1:29.1 | after 12 years spent under house arrest, then a room in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, |
| 1:35.0 | and finally, a cell in Belmarsh High Security Prison. Back in 2010, his site released a trove |
| 1:42.4 | of classified US military reports, eventually leading the United States to seek his extradition. |
| 1:49.0 | Here's Assange speaking from the balcony of the embassy seven years ago, seven years into his fight. |
| 1:54.9 | Seven years of detention without charge in prison, under house arrest, and almost five years here in this embassy |
| 2:06.6 | without sunlight. Seven years without charge, why my children grew up without me. That is not |
| 2:16.6 | something that I can forgive. It is not something that I can forgive. It is not something that I can forget. |
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