Democracide
The trials of Julian Assange: A death sentence for democracy America’s ‘full assault on media freedom, access to information, and the truth’ is once again on full display. Belén Fernández Al Jazeera columnist Published On 22 Feb 202422 Feb 2024 A protester stands outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Wednesday, February 21, 2024., where Julian Assange's lawyers are on their final UK legal challenge to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges [Kin Cheung/AP Photo] In June 2022, when Russia’s foreign ministry announced that it was considering “stringent measures” against United States media outlets in response to US restrictions on Russian media, the US Department of State huffily complained that the Kremlin was “engaged in a full assault on media freedom, access to information, and the truth”. This sort of hypocrisy was nothing new; after all, the world’s self-appointed greatest democracy has long made...