ITHAKA DETAILS FATHERS FIGHT TO FREE JULIAN ASSANGE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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John and Gabriel Shipton discuss their gripping documentary, Ithaka, which chronicles the unrelenting struggle to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, their son and brother, from a high-security prison in Britain for his part in releasing classified US government files to the public.

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0:00.0	Journalism is under attack right now.
0:03.5	And I think that this is a story as this week marks the fourth year that Julian Assange
0:09.0	has been, it appears to be a virtual solitary confinement for having released footage and
0:15.6	things that were handed to him that told the truth.
0:17.4	He didn't lie, it was handed to him, he didn't work for the government, he can't be charged
0:21.5	with espionage, he didn't go in and get it, someone handed it to him, and he said, you
0:25.0	know what the world should know the truth about what's happening here.
0:27.9	That's what journalists do, that's why they've always been protected.
0:32.9	And if you don't know his story of somehow you slept through it, this is the story of Julian Assange.
0:37.9	Julian Assange, the controversial WikiLeaks founder.
0:41.9	But who is Julian Assange?
0:43.9	Some people say I'm a science, some people say I'm terrorist.
0:45.9	Hacker, activist, some people say I'm maniac.
0:48.9	Or fugitive criminal.
0:49.9	The WikiLeaks organization published hundreds more internal government documents.
0:54.9	Assange has embarrassed the powerful and revealed top secret information about US and other
1:01.9	government activity.
1:02.9	He's such an extreme figure that he absolutely polarizes people.
1:06.9	He is the mastermind behind WikiLeaks, which has published the secrets of nations and
1:11.9	is now at the heart of a global debate of the public's right to know.
1:16.9	This video was released by Julian Assange's WikiLeaks organization in 2010.
1:20.9	Classified US military video shows a helicopter gunship attack on a crowd of people in Baghdad.
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