So, Good evening. It's Friday April 14th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update. Our

live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM

Eastern exclusively here on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Exactly four years ago this week, British law enforcement agents marched into the

Ecuadorian embassy in London and arrested the publisher, journalist and

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The person who has quite possibly published

more major scoops than any journalist of his generation.

Ever since, Assange has been imprisoned in the high security prison called His Majesty's Prison

Belmarche, a facility so repressive and grim that it has been used for dangerous

terrorist suspects and the BBC in 2004 called it Britain's Guantanamo Bay.

Asanges imprisonment continues to this very day, despite his never having been convicted of

any crime other than a bail jumping misdemeanor, for which he long ago served his 11-month sentence.

Instead, he is now being held in that prison solely because the Biden administration is

demanding that he be extradited to stand trial in the United States, a country of which he is not a citizen and

which he has barely visited, on espionage charges in connection with the 2010 reporting

that WikiLeaks did on U.S. were crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Despite the fact that Assange is a famous and deeply polarizing figure,

the real and full story of Assange's imprisonment, how we came to be in prison and why is rarely

told.

It's a complex story and one that unfolds over almost 13 years now.

So we decided to vote tonight's episode to telling and

documenting that story in part because of its four-year anniversary and part because

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