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- This, is about the truth.

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- [Narrator] Some
see a terrorist.

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- [Assange] The real
story of this material,

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is it that's it's war, it's
one damn thing after another.

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- [Narrator] Some
see a journalist.

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The media would have
you see an eccentric,

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weird and mysterious criminal.

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- In relation to my
Wikileaks work, it goes on.

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- We have to recognize
that we can no longer allow

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Assange and his colleagues.

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The latitude to use free
speech values against us.

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- [Narrator] This
is an unparalleled
look of the journey,

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of how one man and his
mission to empower the world

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with information
became the target

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of the most powerful
government in the world.

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- 10 days arbitrary detention
in Wandsworth prison

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in solitary, 18 months
house arrest in Norwich,

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Julian had to seek asylum.

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And was given asylum in
the Ecuadorian embassy

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and that was seven
and a half years.

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So 10 years of
arbitrary detention.

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- What is happening here today.

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- [Crowd] What is
happening here today

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- Is a culmination of dreams.

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- [Crowd] Is a
culmination of dreams.

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- [Narrator] From
coder to convict,

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this is the story
of Julia Assange.

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One man in his fight
for a fair trial,

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one man and his quest for truth.

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[dramatic music]

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In his teenage years
living in Australia,

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Julian Assange found
himself in the center

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of a burgeoning
technology driven world.

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With an affinity to computers,

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Assange began experimenting
with coding and hacking.

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- What hacking is, is
having the attitude

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of playful cleverness.

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Doesn't matter just
what you're doing,

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you could be writing computer
programs, writing music,

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sneaking around on
the roof of a building

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where the authority say
people aren't supposed to go

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or sneaking around
abandoned subway tunnels.

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- Someone who is so
interested in things,

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that they don't need to
be pushed to investigate

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them rather thoroughly.

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- Well, hacker ethic is
a series of principles,

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that I think the hackers
that I have spoken to.

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No matter what generation
seem to implicitly share,

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it's based around I
guess a premise that,

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Your best off when you
get your hands on things,

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to change them.

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It's a very active philosophy

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and is also based around a
free flow of information.

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Information if not
free should be as

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freely disseminated as possible.

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In the spirit of sharing,
in the spirit of helping

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everyone else improve systems.

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- What is hacking all about?

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It's all about
whatever it's to do

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It's everything you ever
wanted a computer to be,

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It's making love,
it's being aggressive,

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it's stalking into the unknown

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and seizing the
unknown and kicking it.

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And finding out that is
exactly what you did intend.

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- It was only really after
I started talking to hackers

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from various time periods
that I realized they share

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this philosophy to
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- [Narrator] The year is 1989.

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NASA are forced
to delay a launch

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after becoming the
victim of a hack.

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Wank worms against nuclear
killers infiltrated

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the NASA servers with
the first of its kind.

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A political message.

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You talk of times of peace for
all and then prepare for war.

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Investigations link
the hack to a group

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of anonymous Melbourne hackers.

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Though no one has
been found guilty.

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Julian was believed
to be involved.

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[soft music]

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In 1993, Julian gave technical
advice on two occasions

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to an Australian police
child exploitation unit.

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Which in turn assisted them
with putting child abusers

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and pornographers behind bars.

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[soft music]

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Fast forward to 2006.

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After becoming embroiled in
the mucky world of hacking.

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Assange saw the world
with a veil pulled back.

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Eye witness to the contradiction
between public statements

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and the truth that lay on
the servers in the back room,

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Assange looked to
change the status quo.

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Julian Assange founded a
news organization in 2006.

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Aimed to publishing information

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that is in the
public's interest.

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Built on the basis of not
knowing who the source is.

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A mission of speaking
truth to power.

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WikiLeaks became notorious in

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its first few years
of publishing.

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Whistleblowers soon started
anonymously sending Wikileaks

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sensitive and at times,
classified information

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from organizations
all over the globe.

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A blind eye could not be
turned to the abuses of power

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that were being exposed
year after year,

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by the newly founded news
publishing organization.

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Revealing Guantanamo
Bay procedures.

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Scientology documents.

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- With your help
we're gonna win,

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- [Narrator] Exposing
Sarah Palin's violation

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of public record laws
at the 2008 US election.

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Extrajudicial killings in Kenya.

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The membership list of
the hateful right wing

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British National Party,

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disclosing Barclays
Bank tax avoidance,

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the internet censorship lists,
revealed news of a serious

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nuclear accident in Iran
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hinting that a Stuxnet computer
worm carried out the attack,

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a jointly built cyber
weapon by the United States

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and Israel governments.

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And the harmful dumping of
toxic substances in Africa,

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called the Minton report.

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Culminating in a debate still
present in the WikiLeaks saga.

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Lawyers for the commodities
giants Trafigura obtained

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a secret super injunction
against the guardian

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for further publishing the
contents of the Minton report.

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Bringing into question the
privileges guaranteeing

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free speech established under
the 1689 bill of rights,

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statutes that
Wikileaks also upholds.

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March 15th, 2010.

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[dramatic music]

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Wikileaks publishes
a 32 page report,

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on themselves
conducted in secret

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by the United States
Department of Defense.

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For exposing human rights
violations in Guantanamo Bay,

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the US equipment expenditure

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and the battle over the
Iraqi town of Fallujah.

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Discussed in the document
are ways in which

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the United States can deter
any current or former insiders

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or whistleblowers,
their security interests
and the methods

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for marginalizing the
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Julian was in view, but
what transpired next

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would put a target on his back.

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April 5th 2010.

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Julian Assange caught
the eye of most Americans

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when Wikileaks published
the collateral murder video.

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Sending tremors that could
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Leaked by an anonymous
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the video shows the purported
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amongst them two journalists,

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part of the Reuters news agency.

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On the 12th of July 2007,
having been unable to identify

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small arms fire in a Baghdad
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deployed two Apache
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Through the cross hairs, we see
the lead up to the incident.

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The supposed misidentification
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the subsequent firing
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including the targeting
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to the aid of the wounded men.

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Two young girls were
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- Some of the morning papers.

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So this is the Guardian
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putting pages about this topic,

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also concurrently in
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the New York Times, I'm not
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Herald Tribune and I believe
the telegraph also has it.

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- July 25th 2010.

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Nickname to the
Afghan war diary,

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WikiLeaks releases over 92,000
documents to The Guardian,

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The New York Times and German
publication Der Spiegel.

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Disclosing friendly fire and
civilian casualty incidents

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in the war in Afghanistan
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The scale of which
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to the 1970s Pentagon papers.

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- There's no doubt in my
mind, no doubt in my mind.

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We'll bring Al Queda
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peace or no peace
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- We're familiar with groups
whose abuse we expose,

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attempting to criticize
the messenger to distract

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from the power of the message.

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We have tried hard to make sure
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put innocents at harm.

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- [Narrator] Four days later,
a 1.4 gigabyte insurance file

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was added to the page.

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Fearing that Assange or
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the decryption for the
insurance file would be released

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if either got in harm's way.

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- I'm often asked this question,

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what is the most single
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What is the thing that
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the single event, the
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the single mass killing.

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That is not the real
story of this material.

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The real story of this
material is that it's war.

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It's one damn thing
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It's clear that it will shape
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the past six years
of war has been like.

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And that the cause of
the war needs to change

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the manner in which it needs
to change is not yet clear.

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- These documents are going to have to be poured

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through, analyzed and making sure that they then match up

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with the media reports and what ISAF has been telling us

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about civilian casualties.

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- It is the most
comprehensive history of a war

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to have ever been published
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- [Narrator] Intelligence
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formally Bradley Manning was
arrested on May 27th 2010.

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By March of 2011, Manning was
charged with 22 violations.

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The most serious of which
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punishable by a death sentence.

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Concerns by the Obama
administration fueled
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on the basis of stolen
government property

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and the unredacted
disclosure of Afghans

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acting as informers potentially
putting lives at risk.

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WikiLeaks held back on
releasing all of the files

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in order to review

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and redact the sources
of the information.

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WikiLeaks in an attempt
to morph the method

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requested help from the
Pentagon and human rights groups

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to aid in redacting the names
that receive no assistance.

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- Right over here.

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- Why are we here?

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- [Narrator] The monumental
leak was surpassed by

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what the Pentagon described
as the largest leak

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of classified documents
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dubbed the Iraq war logs.

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The release made in October
2010, by Assange's Wikileaks

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disclosed just under 400,000.

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- [Assange] Because we
don't have much time,

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I won't speak for long.

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But,

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this disclosure,

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is about the truth.

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Philip Knightley, the great
investigative reporter

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an Australian, who for
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has made the UK his home said,

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that the first casualty
of war is the truth.

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But the attack on
the truth by war

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begins long before war starts

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and continues long
after a war ends.

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In our release of these
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about the Iraq war,

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the intimate detail of that
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Iraq, as we can see,

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was a bloodbath on every corner

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of that country.

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They stated aims for
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of improving the human
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improving the rule of law.

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- In any human disaster,
finding out who died

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and how they died is the
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For seven years on the public
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of the terrible human cost

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of this ongoing Iraq
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What we have instead, is anincomplete patchwork of stories,

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pictures and data gathered by different organizations

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for different purposes.

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Often published one day
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- [Narrator] Other news
publishers ran with the story

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focusing on the claims that
the United States government

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had ignored torture reports
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of 15,000 civilian deaths.

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Wikileaks was fast becoming one

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of the most dangerous websites.

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And the man behind
it was now the enemy

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of the most powerful
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The United States government.

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Unearthed during the Manning
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Manning had used IRC and
Java encrypted internet

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conferencing services to
contact an anonymous member

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of Wikileaks believed
to be Assange.

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Julian dismissed the allegations
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The United States began their
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and Wikileaks looking
to prosecute under

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the Espionage Act of 1917,

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for seeking out
classified information.

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On the contrary, no evidence
was found that Assange

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offered Manning any
direction in her leaks,

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raising serious questions
around press freedom

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and first amendment rights.

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During a visit to Sweden,
Assange became the subject

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of allegations that would hang
over him for years to come.

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Two women claimed to have been

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sexually assaulted by Assange.

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Questioning ensued only for
the case to be suddenly closed.

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Julian was allowed
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One week later, the
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Looking to resolve the issue,
Assange asks to be interviewed

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before he leaves the country.

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But was told he may
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Some months on after
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authorities issue an
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ordering the detention
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wrongdoings around the globe.

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The warrant was lowered
to suspicion of rape

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of rape of a lesser degree.

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Assange's legal team argued
that there was no such thing as

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a minor rape, and that the
allegations made do not need

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the European legal
definition of rape.

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Further efforts by Assange
to be questioned in Britain

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where he had been residing
for two months were denied.

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Assange's next battle to
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to be sent back to Sweden,
fearing a further extradition

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to the United States
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life imprisonment or
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[sirens blaring]

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December 7th 2010.

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Assange hands himself
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- They've verified his identity.

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They're satisfied that he is the real Julian Assange,

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and we're now ready
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Many people believe Mr. Assange

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to be innocent, myself included.

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And many people believe that

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this prosecution is
politically motivated.

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[police officers shouting]

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- [Plato] I think he's
got a chance, yes.

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I fancy him, I do.

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I don't think it's
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At this point I'm not convinced

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that he has committed a crime

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in the United States.

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[crowd shouting]

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- Today, we learned for the
very first time information

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about the allegations
that are being made

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from Sweden about him.

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There are no charges,
still no charges.

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He's only wanted
for questioning.

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And we still haven't
seen the allegations.

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- [Mark] And people
have understood for
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that there is
something wrong here.

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It's not in the
state of Denmark,

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it's in the state of Sweden,

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and I think people are starting
to stand up and be counted.

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We saw five very brave and
honorable people stand up today

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to be sure it is for him,

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four of them didn't
know who he was,

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but were prepared to do so.

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Because they believed
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believed this to be wrong and
I think they are but the tip

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of an iceberg and I do
believe this will go viral.

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- Any journalist, who feels
anything about what we do,

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should be supporting him 100%.

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I think the charges
against him are outrageous.

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- [Reporter] Why?

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- [Reporter] What's
the next step.

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- Because if you look
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you know, as I've said the
chief prosecutor in Sweden

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throughout this case, in
effect declared it ridiculous.

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And it was brought back
only after the intervention

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of a senior right
wing politician.

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- [Reporter] Who was that sir?

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- That will do.

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- Finally, after two
hours, we've heard

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that the Swedes won't abide
by the umpires decision.

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They clearly will not
spare any expense,

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but to keep Mr. Assange in jail.

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This is really turning
into a show trial.

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[dramatic music]

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- [Crowd] Free Julian now.

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Free Julian now.

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[dramatic music]

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Free Julian now.

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- The fact that Julian
Assange was refused bail,

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was a gross injustice and
that has been corrected.

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- [John] Today in a limited way.

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- I think the attempt
is designed to discredit

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Assange, his
credibility, his morals,

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in order to discredit Wikileaks as an organization.

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But every organization is larger

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than a single person within it.

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And WikiLeaks will
survive whatever,

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so it was a foolish decision
to try and discredit him.

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- During my time in
solitary confinement,

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in the bottom of a
Victorian prison.

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I had time to reflect
on the conditions,

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of those people
around the world,

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also in solitary confinement,

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also on remand,

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in conditions that
are more difficult

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than those faced by me.

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I hope to continue

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my work and continue,

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to protest my innocence
in this matter,

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and to reveal as we get it,

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which we have not
yet the evidence

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from these
allegations, thank you.

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[dramatic music]

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- I don't have too many
fears about being extradited

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to Sweden there are
much bigger concerns

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about being extradited
to the United States.

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[dramatic music]

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Those who have been following
the case will have heard

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time and time again
repeated statements,

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that no evidence
needs to be presented,

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In this case by the prosecution.

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To extradite me no
evidence is needed

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under European arrest warrant.

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In relation to my
bail application,

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they said they did not need
to present any evidence.

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In Sweden, every single court
hearing has been in secret,

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and we still have not been
provided with the evidence.

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Either provided with
not a single page

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of information in
English whatsoever.

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- [Assange] Ambassadors were
tasked by Hillary Clinton

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to engage in espionage behavior.

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And that is not the first paper

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we have released
on that subject,

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more serious ones,
including tasking

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- [Assange] ambassadors
to steal the DNA

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of leaders of human rights
organizations in South America.

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Including stealing the DNA

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of members of the
UN Security Council

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and even Ban-Ki Moon.

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So that's a,

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a serious change.

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I don't believe that has
always been the case.

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- Cause embassies have always
been a host for espionage.

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But diplomats have
not always been

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tasked to conduct espionage.

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That seems to be a change
and that seems to be

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representative of
a gradual shift

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to a lack of rule of law.

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- [Assange] In US institutions
that needs to be exposed

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and that we have been exposing.

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- And that other journalists

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have been helping us to expose,

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and which is something
that I believe

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that the US public
does not support,

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the Australian public
does not support,

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the British public
does not support,

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the Swedish public
does not support.

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We don't engage in
actual decisions.

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We have written policy
for our public decisions

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and that keeps us accountable

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and we think that is the
way forward in journalism.

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That all news organizations
should follow.

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- I think that has to do Julian,
because we are a bit late.

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- Okay.

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- [Reporter] One final question.

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- I'm under house
arrest sir, I gotta go.

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- [Narrator] With some
high profile celebrities

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and friends backing him.

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Julian was able to
pay the exorbitant

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bail price of 240,000 pounds.

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And was even offered sanctuary
by former Army officer

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and war correspondent
Vaughn Smith.

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- Well, I mean, there's a saying
about battlefield friendship.

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So it's the depth of the trench rather than the length

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of time you've
been living in it.

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And, if you've, you know, if you experience things

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with people you get
to know them well,

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and you don't necessarily have

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to have known them a long time.

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[reporters asking question]

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- I will speak
with you for hours.

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- [Assange] Very nice
to be free for Christmas

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and to smell the
fresh air of Norfolk.

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Solitary confinement in the
bottom of Victorian prison is

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a significant
experience in a way.

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It's an experience I'm
glad that I've had.

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I've never been in prison,
but I think it is important

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for every journalist actually
writing about serious matters

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to be in a prison,

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to understand what it is
like for people in prison,

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around the world.

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Clearing my name is not
the highest task I have,

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the highest task I have, is
to continue on with my work.

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We have also heard today
from one of my US lawyers,

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yet to be confirmed
but a serious matter

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that they may be a US indictment

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for espionage for me

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coming from a secret US
grand jury investigation.

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- [Narrator] The
backdrop for the world's

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most wanted house guest.

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The picturesque Norfolk Manor,

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that is

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Ellingham Hall.

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- Very nice to be
amongst good friends,

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you know fresh snow in
the English countryside,

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to have my first
Martini in a long time.

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So very good, of course
we have to understand

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that I am practically
under house arrest.

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But of course
personally it's a big

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improvement compared to being

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in the basement in
solitary confinement.

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Where has been many
calls by senior political

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figures in the United States,
including the elected ones

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in the Senate for my execution,
the kidnapping of my staff,

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the execution of the young
soldier Bradley Manning.

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This has been a very successful

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smear campaign so far.

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But I think it's
days are numbered

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and people are
starting to wonder

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is what is claimed really true

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and if it is true,
where's the evidence?

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- [Assange] For the past
five and a half months,

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we have been in a condition

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where a black box has
been applied to my life

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and on the outside
of that black box,

504
00:28:10.412 --> 00:28:13.036
has been written the word rape.

505
00:28:15.210 --> 00:28:16.798
That box is now,

506
00:28:18.041 --> 00:28:21.769
thanks to an open court
process being opened.

507
00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:28.189
And I hope over the next day,

508
00:28:28.223 --> 00:28:31.019
we will see that, that box

509
00:28:32.711 --> 00:28:34.436
is in fact empty.

510
00:28:35.852 --> 00:28:39.614
And has nothing to
do with the words,

511
00:28:39.648 --> 00:28:41.443
that are on the outside of it.

512
00:28:43.756 --> 00:28:45.344
[thunder-clap]

513
00:28:45.378 --> 00:28:46.552
- I challenge you Marianne Ny.

514
00:28:46.586 --> 00:28:49.969
Marianne Ny, come to
London, come on Friday,

515
00:28:50.004 --> 00:28:53.076
subject yourself to
the cross examination

516
00:28:53.110 --> 00:28:55.147
by Jeffrey Robertson QC.

517
00:28:55.181 --> 00:28:58.598
- In relation to
my Wikileaks work,

518
00:28:58.633 --> 00:29:01.774
which of course is
a separate topic.

519
00:29:03.293 --> 00:29:07.193
It goes on it continues
every day we are publishing

520
00:29:07.228 --> 00:29:09.230
serious content around the world

521
00:29:09.264 --> 00:29:11.957
and especially about
the Middle East.

522
00:29:11.991 --> 00:29:14.200
And that gives me great heart,

523
00:29:15.684 --> 00:29:17.825
as does the ongoing
support of the world

524
00:29:17.859 --> 00:29:20.137
for my staff and our mission.

525
00:29:23.416 --> 00:29:26.454
- [Narrator] February
2011, marks the first loss

526
00:29:26.488 --> 00:29:29.457
in Assange's quest to
quash the extradition.

527
00:29:30.630 --> 00:29:33.081
- [Assange] What we
saw today at Belmarsh,

528
00:29:34.669 --> 00:29:36.775
was a rubber stamping process.

529
00:29:38.052 --> 00:29:40.502
That comes as no surprise,

530
00:29:42.125 --> 00:29:44.161
but is none the less wrong.

531
00:29:45.369 --> 00:29:47.406
- And that is releasing
footage of a helicopter

532
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:50.789
gunshot massacre of two
Reuters journalists.

533
00:29:50.823 --> 00:29:54.620
- A rubber stamping
process that is a result

534
00:29:55.897 --> 00:29:59.798
of a European arrest
warrant system run amok.

535
00:30:02.697 --> 00:30:07.702
There was no consideration
during this entire process

536
00:30:08.876 --> 00:30:11.188
as to the merits
of the allegations

537
00:30:12.949 --> 00:30:14.813
made against me

538
00:30:17.470 --> 00:30:19.921
No consideration or examination

539
00:30:21.164 --> 00:30:23.511
of even the complaints,

540
00:30:24.753 --> 00:30:25.927
made in Sweden.

541
00:30:28.309 --> 00:30:32.002
And of course we have always
known that we would appeal.

542
00:30:34.936 --> 00:30:38.077
We have always known,
that in all likelihood

543
00:30:39.941 --> 00:30:41.184
we would have to appeal.

544
00:30:42.979 --> 00:30:45.015
- Congratulations from an
Irish man, I hope you win.

545
00:30:45.050 --> 00:30:45.947
- Thank you.

546
00:30:45.982 --> 00:30:47.121
- I hope you win,
we're right behind you,

547
00:30:47.155 --> 00:30:49.295
I hope you win, congratulations.

548
00:30:51.228 --> 00:30:53.196
- I'll stand up for you.

549
00:30:58.857 --> 00:31:01.238
[soft music]

550
00:31:07.072 --> 00:31:09.384
- Today at Belmarsh court,
there's been miscarriage

551
00:31:09.419 --> 00:31:12.940
of justice an innocent
man has been sentenced,

552
00:31:12.974 --> 00:31:14.873
and these two
protestors are wanting

553
00:31:14.907 --> 00:31:16.150
to make a point about that.

554
00:31:20.982 --> 00:31:22.950
Julian Assange is innocent.

555
00:31:26.194 --> 00:31:28.024
He should not be extradited.

556
00:31:30.854 --> 00:31:32.683
- Manning's case, it's very clear the US government

557
00:31:32.718 --> 00:31:35.548
is trying to crack him open with his solitary confinement

558
00:31:35.583 --> 00:31:36.998
by causing emotional
devastation.

559
00:31:37.033 --> 00:31:39.380
I think they're trying to get him to issue a confession

560
00:31:39.414 --> 00:31:40.519
or a false confession.

561
00:31:40.933 --> 00:31:42.659
So they can link him
to Julian Assange.

562
00:31:45.558 --> 00:31:48.734
- [Assange] The new charges
are very interesting,

563
00:31:48.768 --> 00:31:52.496
you know, Mr Manning
has now spent

564
00:31:52.531 --> 00:31:55.189
10 months in
solitary confinement.

565
00:31:55.223 --> 00:31:58.778
First in Baghdad, then in
Kuwait, and now in Quantico,

566
00:31:58.813 --> 00:32:00.504
Virginia in the United States.

567
00:32:00.539 --> 00:32:03.922
Amnesty International has
condemned his treatment,

568
00:32:03.956 --> 00:32:07.097
and there are a number of
calls for inquiry into it.

569
00:32:07.132 --> 00:32:12.102
The charges themselves,
these 22 new charges,

570
00:32:13.069 --> 00:32:15.347
include a charge
which labels him

571
00:32:15.381 --> 00:32:17.728
as passing information
to an enemy.

572
00:32:18.902 --> 00:32:21.077
The naive reading of
the charges would have

573
00:32:21.111 --> 00:32:25.322
that enemy being Wikileaks
i.e the publisher.

574
00:32:25.357 --> 00:32:28.532
So the United States
appears to be setting

575
00:32:28.567 --> 00:32:31.604
up these charges
for two purposes.

576
00:32:31.639 --> 00:32:36.023
Number one, to provide
pressure on Bradley Manning,

577
00:32:36.057 --> 00:32:39.095
they're trying to use a
sledgehammer to crack a nut

578
00:32:39.129 --> 00:32:44.134
into confessing some kind of
relationship with Wikileaks.

579
00:32:45.308 --> 00:32:48.828
In order to embroil us
into an espionage case.

580
00:32:48.863 --> 00:32:52.971
The other purpose of these
charges is to spread across

581
00:32:53.005 --> 00:32:55.559
a spectrum of different
types of criminality.

582
00:32:57.044 --> 00:32:59.839
They've been trying to crack
Bradley Manning for months.

583
00:32:59.874 --> 00:33:02.152
By making his conditions
worse and worse.

584
00:33:02.187 --> 00:33:03.360
There's been a
number of complaints

585
00:33:03.395 --> 00:33:04.913
by his lawyers
about that matter.

586
00:33:04.948 --> 00:33:07.192
And Amnesty International
has complained about his

587
00:33:07.226 --> 00:33:10.609
treatment, Bradley
Manning is not speaking.

588
00:33:10.643 --> 00:33:13.681
And Bradley Manning is
exercising his right to silence

589
00:33:13.715 --> 00:33:16.822
and they're trying to
force him into a plea deal.

590
00:33:18.237 --> 00:33:21.447
And most legal commentators
believe that kind of plea deal

591
00:33:21.482 --> 00:33:25.520
would involve him in saying
something that would help

592
00:33:25.555 --> 00:33:29.662
the United States prosecute
this organization for espionage

593
00:33:29.697 --> 00:33:34.288
or some other criminal matter
that he could be embroiled in.

594
00:33:34.322 --> 00:33:37.049
So that is wrong.

595
00:33:37.084 --> 00:33:40.846
You know, the requirements given
by some of those charges is

596
00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:45.747
that Wikileaks is the
enemy of the United States,

597
00:33:47.163 --> 00:33:48.957
that the publisher is the
enemy of the United States.

598
00:33:48.992 --> 00:33:52.892
And nothing in our four years
of publishing shows that

599
00:33:52.927 --> 00:33:55.067
that is in any way true.

600
00:33:55.102 --> 00:33:59.037
We publish from all
countries who come to us.

601
00:33:59.071 --> 00:34:01.039
We are not an enemy
of the United States,

602
00:34:01.073 --> 00:34:04.042
and it is an abuse
against Mr. Manning

603
00:34:04.076 --> 00:34:06.561
and an abuse against us
to suggest otherwise.

604
00:34:08.322 --> 00:34:09.875
- [Narrator] October 15th 2011.

605
00:34:11.359 --> 00:34:12.912
Assange was next seen at the

606
00:34:12.947 --> 00:34:15.846
anti capitalist
protest, occupy London.

607
00:34:15.881 --> 00:34:18.711
But nothing is straightforward
for the man who had published

608
00:34:18.746 --> 00:34:22.094
the largest leak of
classified material ever seen.

609
00:34:23.992 --> 00:34:26.133
- We're blocked from
speaking at the moment,

610
00:34:26.167 --> 00:34:29.619
but we'll try to
negotiate a way through.

611
00:34:29.653 --> 00:34:32.139
Wikileaks has been
most attacked,

612
00:34:32.173 --> 00:34:34.796
not by military organizations,

613
00:34:34.831 --> 00:34:36.108
or intelligence organizations,

614
00:34:36.143 --> 00:34:38.628
but actually
numerically by banks.

615
00:34:42.977 --> 00:34:46.463
This is an infamous tactic

616
00:34:46.498 --> 00:34:49.328
used by the MET called kettling.

617
00:34:49.363 --> 00:34:51.503
Which doesn't have an analogy

618
00:34:51.537 --> 00:34:53.746
in many other
democratic countries.

619
00:34:53.781 --> 00:34:57.267
It is to enclose the populate,

620
00:34:57.302 --> 00:35:02.307
enclose protesters in tight
small groups prior to any

621
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:06.104
sort of accusation
of violent activity.

622
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:09.900
So in this particular
example, you see

623
00:35:11.350 --> 00:35:15.182
what is a entirely political
protest about the big banks.

624
00:35:16.286 --> 00:35:19.565
Being denied its ability
to express itself.

625
00:35:19.600 --> 00:35:21.084
It's very important
in a democracy

626
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:23.845
that people see that
they have the numbers.

627
00:35:26.227 --> 00:35:28.160
They see that their
opinion is shared

628
00:35:28.195 --> 00:35:29.817
by other people
in the community.

629
00:35:29.851 --> 00:35:32.785
And this form of
kettling prevents

630
00:35:33.648 --> 00:35:35.063
people coming to a protest

631
00:35:35.098 --> 00:35:38.205
people in the community
seeing that their values

632
00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:40.828
are actually a majority.

633
00:35:40.862 --> 00:35:43.865
So that's why it's anti
democratic process.

634
00:35:43.900 --> 00:35:46.834
While we can all understand
that certain actions need to be

635
00:35:46.868 --> 00:35:49.595
taken in response
to true violence.

636
00:35:49.630 --> 00:35:51.873
There is no hint
of violence at all.

637
00:35:51.908 --> 00:35:53.910
And I spoke to
police earlier today,

638
00:35:53.944 --> 00:35:57.016
they said it will all
be a completely calm.

639
00:35:57.051 --> 00:35:58.915
good day, good
weather, good people.

640
00:35:59.881 --> 00:36:02.470
[dogs barking]

641
00:36:06.612 --> 00:36:10.375
In 2007, I lived in Cairo,

642
00:36:10.409 --> 00:36:14.033
and I and my friends
in Cairo were all too,

643
00:36:14.068 --> 00:36:17.727
too well aware of the
behavior of the Mubarak regime

644
00:36:17.761 --> 00:36:20.212
with 20,000 political prisoners,

645
00:36:20.247 --> 00:36:23.491
it seemed impossible that
anything could change.

646
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:28.772
But through courage,
determination and
professionalism,

647
00:36:30.188 --> 00:36:33.708
we did see a change we saw
the end of the Mubarak regime.

648
00:36:35.020 --> 00:36:38.989
And while the situation
in the West is different

649
00:36:39.024 --> 00:36:41.268
in important respects
to that faced

650
00:36:41.302 --> 00:36:43.615
by people in the Arab Spring.

651
00:36:43.649 --> 00:36:45.996
There are also similarities.

652
00:36:46.031 --> 00:36:48.999
While ideas from the
Western enlightenment

653
00:36:49.034 --> 00:36:51.899
entered into the pan Arab states

654
00:36:51.933 --> 00:36:53.659
and gave those activists hope

655
00:36:53.694 --> 00:36:56.248
and technology allowed
them to organize better.

656
00:36:57.836 --> 00:37:01.702
We in the West have a lot to
learn also from the successes

657
00:37:01.736 --> 00:37:03.876
of people in the Arab Spring.

658
00:37:05.292 --> 00:37:07.984
Their determination and
professionalism in response

659
00:37:08.018 --> 00:37:11.229
to years of abuse and torture.

660
00:37:13.576 --> 00:37:17.131
Lead eventually to the
overthrow of Mubarak,

661
00:37:17.165 --> 00:37:21.031
and the overthrow of Ben
Ali and reforms in Morocco

662
00:37:21.066 --> 00:37:23.241
and throughout many
countries in the region.

663
00:37:24.897 --> 00:37:26.278
- [ Assange] What is
happening here today.

664
00:37:26.313 --> 00:37:28.280
- [Crowd] What is
happening here today.

665
00:37:28.315 --> 00:37:30.420
- [Assange] Is a
culmination of dreams.

666
00:37:30.455 --> 00:37:32.629
- [Crowd] Is a
culmination of dreams.

667
00:37:33.837 --> 00:37:36.495
- That many people,
all over the world.

668
00:37:36.530 --> 00:37:39.912
- [Crowd] That many
people all over the world.

669
00:37:39.947 --> 00:37:41.535
- Have worked towards.

670
00:37:41.569 --> 00:37:43.399
- [Crowd] Have worked towards.

671
00:37:43.433 --> 00:37:45.608
- From Cairo to London.

672
00:37:45.642 --> 00:37:47.368
- [Crowd] From Cairo to London.

673
00:37:47.403 --> 00:37:48.887
[crowd cheering]

674
00:37:48.921 --> 00:37:50.371
- [Assange] Wikileaks has
published the biggest leaks

675
00:37:50.406 --> 00:37:52.131
in journalistic history.

676
00:37:53.305 --> 00:37:56.135
This has triggered
aggressive retaliation

677
00:37:56.170 --> 00:37:57.551
from powerful groups.

678
00:37:58.759 --> 00:38:01.486
Since the seventh
of December 2010,

679
00:38:01.520 --> 00:38:04.937
an arbitrary and unlawful
financial blockade.

680
00:38:04.972 --> 00:38:09.977
Imposed by the Bank of America,
Visa, MasterCard, PayPal,

681
00:38:11.496 --> 00:38:15.983
and Western Union has
destroyed 95% of our revenue.

682
00:38:17.985 --> 00:38:22.161
It came as part of the concerted
US based political attack

683
00:38:22.196 --> 00:38:26.442
that included vitriol by senior
right wing politicians in

684
00:38:26.476 --> 00:38:30.653
the United States and high level
calls for the assassination

685
00:38:30.687 --> 00:38:33.656
of Wikileaks staff
and myself personally.

686
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:47.463
- [Narrator] November 2011,

687
00:38:50.155 --> 00:38:53.745
Assange loses his appeal
against extradition.

688
00:38:53.779 --> 00:38:57.093
- I have not been charged
with any crime in any country.

689
00:38:59.233 --> 00:39:04.031
Despite this, the European
arrest warrant is so restrictive

690
00:39:04.065 --> 00:39:08.725
that it prevents UK courts
from considering the facts

691
00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:13.316
of a case as judges have
made, clear here today.

692
00:39:16.215 --> 00:39:20.772
We will be considering our
next step in the days ahead.

693
00:39:20.806 --> 00:39:24.707
This afternoon, the parliament
of the United Kingdom

694
00:39:24.741 --> 00:39:29.401
is considering in depth
the matters that arise

695
00:39:29.436 --> 00:39:31.817
from various extradition cases

696
00:39:31.852 --> 00:39:34.786
in the United Kingdom,
including my own.

697
00:39:38.030 --> 00:39:40.067
Today, the High Court,

698
00:39:41.137 --> 00:39:42.241
has decided,

699
00:39:43.898 --> 00:39:47.350
that any issue that
arises from my own case

700
00:39:47.385 --> 00:39:49.525
is of general public importance

701
00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:53.252
and maybe of assistance
to other cases

702
00:39:53.287 --> 00:39:55.703
and should be heard
by the Supreme Court.

703
00:39:57.153 --> 00:40:00.984
I think that is a correct
decision and I am thankful.

704
00:40:01.019 --> 00:40:03.539
The long struggle
for justice for me

705
00:40:03.573 --> 00:40:05.713
and others continues, thank you.

706
00:40:12.755 --> 00:40:13.963
- [Narrator] The
case is destined

707
00:40:13.997 --> 00:40:16.655
for the highest
court in the land.

708
00:40:16.690 --> 00:40:19.106
[soft music]

709
00:40:21.591 --> 00:40:22.834
Seven months on,

710
00:40:24.525 --> 00:40:27.873
the Supreme court upholds
the decision to extradite.

711
00:40:33.431 --> 00:40:36.468
- [John] It makes the law to
me, seem rather shabby actually

712
00:40:36.503 --> 00:40:38.297
and I'm not talking about,

713
00:40:38.332 --> 00:40:41.439
simply because they
found against Assange.

714
00:40:41.473 --> 00:40:43.510
It is their arguments,

715
00:40:43.544 --> 00:40:47.928
which are not based on, MP's
understood the law to be

716
00:40:47.962 --> 00:40:52.173
when they passed this
extradition legislation in 2001.

717
00:40:55.591 --> 00:40:57.109
- [Narrator] June 2012.

718
00:40:58.835 --> 00:41:01.976
Fearing an extradition to
the United States from Sweden

719
00:41:02.011 --> 00:41:05.566
for his alleged
crimes of procuring
classified information,

720
00:41:05.601 --> 00:41:09.052
Mr. Assange breaches his bail
conditions by walking up the

721
00:41:09.087 --> 00:41:13.643
steps of the Ecuadorian
embassy taking refuge inside.

722
00:41:13.678 --> 00:41:16.197
Giving Assange assurance
he could not be detained

723
00:41:16.232 --> 00:41:19.891
by British police as long as
he doesn't set foot outside.

724
00:41:24.965 --> 00:41:29.417
- So,the situation we confront
today now is a stalemate.

725
00:41:30.384 --> 00:41:33.352
There is a confrontation,

726
00:41:33.387 --> 00:41:36.563
a confrontation which
is not of our choosing.

727
00:41:36.597 --> 00:41:39.117
Because the right
to claim asylum,

728
00:41:39.151 --> 00:41:43.328
is the right of any citizen anywhere in the world.

729
00:41:43.362 --> 00:41:45.951
- [Narrator] August 19th 2012

730
00:41:45.986 --> 00:41:49.058
Julian addresses his supporters
and the assembled media

731
00:41:49.092 --> 00:41:50.853
from the balcony of the embassy.

732
00:41:50.887 --> 00:41:53.959
With a message for the
American establishment.

733
00:41:53.994 --> 00:41:57.791
- The US administration war
of whistleblowers must end.

734
00:41:59.309 --> 00:42:03.072
I thank president
Correa for the courage

735
00:42:03.106 --> 00:42:05.246
he has shown in considering

736
00:42:05.281 --> 00:42:07.732
and in granting me
political asylum.

737
00:42:09.147 --> 00:42:13.738
On Wednesday night after a
threat was sent to this embassy

738
00:42:13.772 --> 00:42:17.086
and police descended
on this building,

739
00:42:17.120 --> 00:42:20.468
you came out in the middle
of the night to watch over

740
00:42:22.609 --> 00:42:26.267
and you brought the
world's eyes with you.

741
00:42:27.406 --> 00:42:30.409
Inside this embassy after dark,

742
00:42:30.444 --> 00:42:35.035
I could hear teams of police
swarming up into the building

743
00:42:35.069 --> 00:42:37.624
through its internal
fire escape.

744
00:42:39.246 --> 00:42:41.628
But I knew there
would be witnesses.

745
00:42:42.663 --> 00:42:44.320
And that is because of you.

746
00:42:45.493 --> 00:42:47.357
There is unity in
the oppression.

747
00:42:48.220 --> 00:42:50.222
There must be absolute unity

748
00:42:50.257 --> 00:42:51.948
and determination
in the response.

749
00:42:53.432 --> 00:42:56.194
[crowd cheering]

750
00:42:57.333 --> 00:42:58.161
Thank you.

751
00:42:59.335 --> 00:43:02.096
[crowd cheering]

752
00:43:04.064 --> 00:43:06.514
[soft music]

753
00:43:10.622 --> 00:43:11.934
- [Vaughan] The Ecuadorians
are the only people,

754
00:43:11.968 --> 00:43:13.349
who have properly looked at,

755
00:43:14.592 --> 00:43:17.802
the idea that Julian
might be threatened.

756
00:43:17.836 --> 00:43:19.804
That his rights are
being threatened,

757
00:43:19.838 --> 00:43:22.047
that he's in danger,
physical danger,

758
00:43:23.048 --> 00:43:24.532
of being sent to America.

759
00:43:24.567 --> 00:43:28.088
- We will not allow a Mr. Assange safe passage out

760
00:43:28.122 --> 00:43:29.710
of the United Kingdom.

761
00:43:29.745 --> 00:43:32.057
- [Vaughan] We seem quite
incapable of appreciating

762
00:43:32.092 --> 00:43:35.267
and acknowledging that
in London Julian Assange

763
00:43:35.302 --> 00:43:36.614
has gone to the
Ecuadorian embassy

764
00:43:36.648 --> 00:43:38.546
and he has got political asylum.

765
00:43:38.581 --> 00:43:41.273
And I think that there's an
opportunity to reflect on that

766
00:43:41.308 --> 00:43:43.413
and if we are really the
tolerant people that we think

767
00:43:43.448 --> 00:43:44.967
we are, we should do that.

768
00:43:47.176 --> 00:43:48.833
- [Narrator] Six months
on from breaking bail

769
00:43:48.867 --> 00:43:50.835
with Christmas fast approaching,

770
00:43:50.869 --> 00:43:54.045
Assange addressed the crowds
from his window once more.

771
00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:56.841
[crowd cheering]

772
00:44:03.226 --> 00:44:04.365
- Good evening, London.

773
00:44:05.815 --> 00:44:08.611
[crowd cheering]

774
00:44:09.957 --> 00:44:12.201
What a sight for sore eyes.

775
00:44:14.237 --> 00:44:17.551
Six months ago, 185 days ago,

776
00:44:17.585 --> 00:44:20.312
I entered this building.

777
00:44:20.347 --> 00:44:24.800
It has become my home,
my office and my refuge.

778
00:44:25.939 --> 00:44:29.011
I came here in summer,
it is winter now.

779
00:44:30.702 --> 00:44:35.673
I have been sustained by your
solidarity, and I'm grateful

780
00:44:37.088 --> 00:44:39.711
for the efforts of people
all around the world.

781
00:44:39.746 --> 00:44:41.368
Supporting the
work of Wikileaks,

782
00:44:42.818 --> 00:44:46.614
supporting freedom of
speech, freedom of the press,

783
00:44:46.649 --> 00:44:49.169
essential elements
in any democracy.

784
00:44:50.342 --> 00:44:53.000
While my freedom is limited,

785
00:44:53.035 --> 00:44:56.935
at least I am still able to
communicate this Christmas,

786
00:44:56.970 --> 00:45:01.906
unlike the 232 journalists
who are in jail tonight.

787
00:45:01.940 --> 00:45:06.945
It is from the revelation of
truth that all else follows.

788
00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:09.914
Our buildings can
only be as tall

789
00:45:09.948 --> 00:45:11.467
as their bricks are strong.

790
00:45:12.882 --> 00:45:17.300
Our civilization is only as
strong as its ideas are true.

791
00:45:18.474 --> 00:45:20.787
When our buildings are
erected by the corrupt,

792
00:45:20.821 --> 00:45:23.168
when their cement
is cut with dirt,

793
00:45:23.203 --> 00:45:26.724
when pristine steel
is replaced by scrap.

794
00:45:26.758 --> 00:45:29.312
Our buildings are
not safe to live in.

795
00:45:30.797 --> 00:45:35.422
And when our media is corrupt,
when our academics are timid,

796
00:45:36.872 --> 00:45:40.220
when our history is filled
with half truths and lies,

797
00:45:40.254 --> 00:45:43.223
our civilization
will never be just,

798
00:45:43.257 --> 00:45:45.639
it will never reach to the sky.

799
00:45:47.330 --> 00:45:50.264
[orchestral music]

800
00:45:55.200 --> 00:45:56.823
- [Narrator] June 2013.

801
00:45:59.964 --> 00:46:01.379
- [Translator] So to sum up,

802
00:46:03.346 --> 00:46:06.660
we sense that granting
political asylum

803
00:46:07.523 --> 00:46:09.525
would be ineffective,

804
00:46:10.906 --> 00:46:14.633
if there were not the corresponding recognition

805
00:46:14.668 --> 00:46:17.533
of the guarantee of safe conduct

806
00:46:18.603 --> 00:46:21.571
in line with protection
of human rights.

807
00:46:23.021 --> 00:46:25.886
We discussed this issue with
the British foreign ministry

808
00:46:27.336 --> 00:46:31.581
which is also concerned about
the risk of the subsequent

809
00:46:31.616 --> 00:46:34.067
extradition which may
occur of Mr. Assange

810
00:46:34.101 --> 00:46:36.483
from Sweden to
the United States.

811
00:46:36.517 --> 00:46:38.588
And this is one of the
reasons why Ecuador

812
00:46:38.623 --> 00:46:40.418
has granted political asylum.

813
00:46:41.384 --> 00:46:44.422
Our concerns have worsened,

814
00:46:46.907 --> 00:46:49.185
particularly in light of
what has been occurring

815
00:46:49.220 --> 00:46:51.601
in the context of
Bradley Manning.

816
00:46:51.636 --> 00:46:53.880
And so together with the UK,

817
00:46:53.914 --> 00:46:57.780
we wish to explore the
possible mechanisms

818
00:46:59.023 --> 00:47:02.198
which we can use to
make sure that Sweden

819
00:47:02.233 --> 00:47:06.271
would not extradite Mr.
Assange, subsequently.

820
00:47:09.861 --> 00:47:11.345
- [Narrator] July 2014.

821
00:47:11.380 --> 00:47:14.107
Air around the embassy was
filled with disappointment

822
00:47:14.141 --> 00:47:16.661
as news surfaced that
Interpol arrest warrant

823
00:47:16.695 --> 00:47:18.180
would be upheld.

824
00:47:18.214 --> 00:47:21.735
Incarcerated inside the
embassy for over two years now,

825
00:47:21.769 --> 00:47:24.807
Assange's hope of freedom
was further diminishing.

826
00:47:24.842 --> 00:47:27.465
- The reality is Julian Assange
is a political prisoner.

827
00:47:27.499 --> 00:47:30.433
You know he's a
dissident in our country,

828
00:47:30.468 --> 00:47:31.883
and we're just not
really used to that.

829
00:47:31.918 --> 00:47:33.160
This wouldn't be happening,

830
00:47:33.195 --> 00:47:34.852
there wouldn't be these
police outside this embassy.

831
00:47:34.886 --> 00:47:36.715
If it wasn't Julian Assange,
if he wasn't a public person,

832
00:47:36.750 --> 00:47:38.062
nobody else would get this.

833
00:47:40.236 --> 00:47:42.169
- [Narrator] August 2014.

834
00:47:42.204 --> 00:47:44.482
Rumors emerge that
the WikiLeaks founder

835
00:47:44.516 --> 00:47:46.380
may need hospital treatment.

836
00:47:48.831 --> 00:47:53.318
- The native environment
in which any healthy person

837
00:47:54.526 --> 00:47:55.769
would find themselves,

838
00:47:57.115 --> 00:48:00.912
soon enough with
certain difficulties.

839
00:48:00.947 --> 00:48:03.881
[orchestral music]

840
00:48:09.714 --> 00:48:11.302
- [Narrator] March 2015.

841
00:48:12.751 --> 00:48:15.168
After years of no progress
held up in confinement,

842
00:48:15.202 --> 00:48:16.652
Swedish prosecutors asked

843
00:48:16.686 --> 00:48:18.965
to interview Julian
inside the embassy.

844
00:48:22.106 --> 00:48:24.660
Only for it to be canceled
a few months later.

845
00:48:24.694 --> 00:48:27.766
According to the founder of
the whistleblowing publication.

846
00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:32.979
[Orchestral music]

847
00:48:37.845 --> 00:48:39.226
August 13th 2015.

848
00:48:41.504 --> 00:48:43.886
After the legal time
limit had passed,

849
00:48:43.921 --> 00:48:46.958
two of the three sexual
allegations were dropped,

850
00:48:46.993 --> 00:48:50.341
the more serious serious
rape allegation remains.

851
00:48:53.827 --> 00:48:56.899
From the moment Assange
strolled up the steps

852
00:48:56.934 --> 00:48:59.419
in June 2012 to October 2015.

853
00:48:59.453 --> 00:49:03.802
The United Kingdom have spent
in excess of 30 million pounds

854
00:49:03.837 --> 00:49:06.736
an expenditure somehow
rationalized by the government.

855
00:49:17.368 --> 00:49:21.199
A small victory came to Assange
in the form of recognition,

856
00:49:21.234 --> 00:49:23.063
having won UN backing.

857
00:49:26.135 --> 00:49:29.104
January 2016, a UN
Working Group panel

858
00:49:29.138 --> 00:49:31.969
on arbitrary detention
supports Assange.

859
00:49:34.695 --> 00:49:35.696
- [Melinda] Good
afternoon, everyone.

860
00:49:36.732 --> 00:49:37.836
So finally, we have the verdict

861
00:49:37.871 --> 00:49:39.700
of the United
Nations Working Group

862
00:49:39.735 --> 00:49:41.392
on arbitrary detention.

863
00:49:41.426 --> 00:49:44.982
And they issued a very detailedopinion which considers

864
00:49:45.016 --> 00:49:48.054
all arguments from Sweden and the United Kingdom.

865
00:49:49.262 --> 00:49:51.850
And this decision
dispels the myth,

866
00:49:51.885 --> 00:49:54.922
that Mr. Assange is either a fugitive from justice

867
00:49:54.957 --> 00:49:58.064
or that he could just
walk out of the embassy.

868
00:49:58.098 --> 00:50:01.136
It is a damning
indictment of the manner

869
00:50:01.170 --> 00:50:03.655
in which this case
has been handled.

870
00:50:04.863 --> 00:50:07.521
Further offense Mr.
Assange is a victim

871
00:50:07.556 --> 00:50:10.766
of a significant
miscarriage of justice,

872
00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:12.630
that is attributable
to the action

873
00:50:12.664 --> 00:50:16.220
and inaction of both Sweden
and the United Kingdom.

874
00:50:17.704 --> 00:50:22.226
It further emphasize Julian's
continued willingness

875
00:50:22.260 --> 00:50:25.056
to cooperate with the
investigations in this case

876
00:50:25.091 --> 00:50:27.507
at all stages of the procedure.

877
00:50:30.993 --> 00:50:33.133
- [Philip] Will I
reject the finding

878
00:50:33.168 --> 00:50:34.410
of this working group?

879
00:50:34.445 --> 00:50:37.034
It's a group made up of
lay people not lawyers.

880
00:50:40.416 --> 00:50:43.661
And their conclusion
is flawed in law.

881
00:50:43.695 --> 00:50:46.905
Julian Assange is a
fugitive from justice.

882
00:50:46.940 --> 00:50:50.633
He's hiding from justice in the Ecuadorian embassy,

883
00:50:50.668 --> 00:50:53.498
he can come out onto the
pavement anytime he chooses.

884
00:50:53.533 --> 00:50:56.984
He's not being detained by us.

885
00:50:57.019 --> 00:51:01.299
But he will have to
face justice in Sweden,

886
00:51:01.334 --> 00:51:03.508
if he chooses to do so.

887
00:51:03.543 --> 00:51:06.511
And it's right that he should
not be able to escape justice.

888
00:51:06.546 --> 00:51:10.446
This is a, frankly,
a ridiculous finding

889
00:51:10.481 --> 00:51:12.862
by the Working Group
and we reject it.

890
00:51:12.897 --> 00:51:14.933
- [Melinda] I mean I'm very
concerned that they would turn

891
00:51:14.968 --> 00:51:17.384
the United Nations
decision as ridiculous.

892
00:51:17.419 --> 00:51:19.490
Well, the United
Kingdom is a member

893
00:51:19.524 --> 00:51:20.629
of the Security Council

894
00:51:20.663 --> 00:51:21.768
it's one of the founding members

895
00:51:21.802 --> 00:51:23.459
of the United Nations system.

896
00:51:23.494 --> 00:51:25.185
I would expect
that they will want

897
00:51:25.220 --> 00:51:28.395
to uphold the very system that they created.

898
00:51:28.430 --> 00:51:31.571
- What rights does
this government

899
00:51:33.435 --> 00:51:37.197
or the US government, or
the Swedish government have

900
00:51:38.336 --> 00:51:42.513
to deny my children
their father,

901
00:51:43.514 --> 00:51:46.103
for five and a half years?

902
00:51:46.137 --> 00:51:49.244
- [Crowd] Yes, shame
on our government.

903
00:51:54.283 --> 00:51:56.389
- [Narrator] May 2016.

904
00:51:56.423 --> 00:52:00.082
Photographs of a new arrival
inside the embassy appear

905
00:52:00.117 --> 00:52:01.877
given to him by his children.

906
00:52:01.911 --> 00:52:04.293
The Embassy cat gave a
much needed rest bite

907
00:52:04.328 --> 00:52:06.882
from the political storm
surrounding Assange.

908
00:52:21.207 --> 00:52:23.036
November 2016.

909
00:52:25.142 --> 00:52:29.146
Swedish authorities interview
Assange in the embassy,

910
00:52:29.180 --> 00:52:30.699
lasting two days.

911
00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:40.433
- [Crowd] Yes we can.

912
00:52:40.467 --> 00:52:41.261
Yes we can

913
00:52:41.296 --> 00:52:42.469
Yes we can.

914
00:52:42.504 --> 00:52:44.195
- Yes we can.

915
00:52:44.230 --> 00:52:46.577
- [Narrator] Outgoing US
President Barack Obama decides

916
00:52:46.611 --> 00:52:50.028
to free Wikileaks key
whistleblower Chelsea Manning,

917
00:52:50.063 --> 00:52:51.582
formerly Bradley Manning.

918
00:52:56.311 --> 00:52:58.313
January 19th.

919
00:52:58.347 --> 00:53:00.901
Assange stands by his
offer of extradition

920
00:53:00.936 --> 00:53:05.941
to the United States, provided
his rights are protected.

921
00:53:06.907 --> 00:53:08.185
- In 10 days,

922
00:53:09.324 --> 00:53:11.360
the world will
witness a hallmark

923
00:53:11.395 --> 00:53:13.086
of our motto.

924
00:53:13.120 --> 00:53:14.294
[crowd boos]

925
00:53:14.329 --> 00:53:15.157
No, no.

926
00:53:16.883 --> 00:53:19.161
But a peaceful
transfer of power,

927
00:53:21.198 --> 00:53:24.235
from one freely elected
president to the next.

928
00:53:24.270 --> 00:53:26.858
[crowd cheers]

929
00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:29.447
- What we gonna do?

930
00:53:29.482 --> 00:53:31.346
We're gonna make America
great again, you watch.

931
00:53:32.450 --> 00:53:33.900
[crowd cheers]

932
00:53:33.934 --> 00:53:37.110
I'm the messenger, I'm
just really the messenger.

933
00:53:37.144 --> 00:53:38.525
Although I've been a
very good messenger.

934
00:53:38.560 --> 00:53:39.975
Let's face it, right.

935
00:53:40.009 --> 00:53:41.218
[crowd cheers]

936
00:53:41.252 --> 00:53:42.219
I've been a pretty
good messenger.

937
00:53:43.668 --> 00:53:44.876
- [Narrator] January 20th.

938
00:53:44.911 --> 00:53:47.016
Donald Trump wins
the presidency.

939
00:53:47.879 --> 00:53:49.433
In the lead up to the election,

940
00:53:49.467 --> 00:53:51.504
Assange is cut off
from the world,

941
00:53:51.538 --> 00:53:54.334
both physically and
technologically.

942
00:53:54.369 --> 00:53:56.405
Ecuador cut the
internet over fears

943
00:53:56.440 --> 00:53:58.856
he may have been meddling
in the US elections.

944
00:54:01.307 --> 00:54:03.930
April 21 2017.

945
00:54:05.311 --> 00:54:08.555
The new Attorney General
Jeff Sessions sets his agenda

946
00:54:08.590 --> 00:54:12.041
declaring Assange's
arrest is a priority.

947
00:54:12.076 --> 00:54:13.388
- [Jeff] For the
Department of Justice

948
00:54:13.422 --> 00:54:16.183
does not discuss
ongoing investigations

949
00:54:16.218 --> 00:54:18.565
or confirm specific matters.

950
00:54:18.600 --> 00:54:20.981
It is important for
the American people

951
00:54:21.016 --> 00:54:22.776
and those who might
be thinking about

952
00:54:22.811 --> 00:54:26.297
leaking classified or
sensitive information.

953
00:54:26.332 --> 00:54:28.955
To know that criminals who would

954
00:54:28.989 --> 00:54:31.302
illegally use their access.

955
00:54:31.337 --> 00:54:33.994
To our most
sensitive information

956
00:54:34.029 --> 00:54:36.583
to endanger our
national security

957
00:54:36.618 --> 00:54:41.174
are in fact being investigated
and will be prosecuted.

958
00:54:41.208 --> 00:54:44.004
Since January, the department
has more than triple

959
00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:47.353
the number of active leak
investigations compared

960
00:54:47.387 --> 00:54:49.596
to the number of
pending at the end

961
00:54:49.631 --> 00:54:51.736
of the last administration.

962
00:54:55.015 --> 00:54:57.949
- [Mike] First to days like
today, where we call out those

963
00:54:57.984 --> 00:54:59.951
who grant a platform
to these leakers,

964
00:54:59.986 --> 00:55:02.402
and so called
transparency activists.

965
00:55:02.437 --> 00:55:04.991
We know the danger that Assange
and his not so merry band

966
00:55:05.025 --> 00:55:07.407
of brothers posted
democracies around the world.

967
00:55:07.442 --> 00:55:09.720
Ignorance or misplaced
idealism is no longer

968
00:55:09.754 --> 00:55:12.964
an acceptable excuse for
lionizing these demons.

969
00:55:14.414 --> 00:55:16.071
Second, there are steps that we have to take at home.

970
00:55:16.105 --> 00:55:17.244
In fact this is a process

971
00:55:17.279 --> 00:55:18.970
that we have already started.

972
00:55:19.005 --> 00:55:20.351
We've got to strengthen
our own systems,

973
00:55:20.386 --> 00:55:22.111
secure our own staff.

974
00:55:22.146 --> 00:55:24.182
We've got to prove our internal
mechanisms that help us.

975
00:55:24.217 --> 00:55:25.805
In our counter
intelligence mission.

976
00:55:25.839 --> 00:55:28.048
We need to be as clever and
innovative as the enemies

977
00:55:28.083 --> 00:55:30.223
we face because they
will not relent.

978
00:55:30.257 --> 00:55:32.570
And we will not either.

979
00:55:32.605 --> 00:55:35.021
Third, we have to recognize
that we can no longer

980
00:55:35.055 --> 00:55:37.679
allow Assange and his
colleagues the latitude

981
00:55:37.713 --> 00:55:40.302
to use free speech
values against us.

982
00:55:40.337 --> 00:55:41.786
To give them the
space to crush us

983
00:55:41.821 --> 00:55:43.788
with misappropriated
secrets is a perversion

984
00:55:43.823 --> 00:55:46.481
of what our great
constitution stands for.

985
00:55:46.515 --> 00:55:47.447
It ends now.

986
00:55:48.586 --> 00:55:50.519
- The persecution of
him is completely wrong.

987
00:55:50.554 --> 00:55:53.902
The threats against him
are completely wrong.

988
00:55:53.936 --> 00:55:55.559
They should be withdrawn.

989
00:55:55.593 --> 00:55:58.769
He should be freed, heshouldn't have to be imprisoned.

990
00:56:00.633 --> 00:56:03.152
- [Narrator] May 19th 2017.

991
00:56:03.187 --> 00:56:05.914
[crowd cheering]

992
00:56:12.576 --> 00:56:15.682
- [Assange] Today is
an important victory,

993
00:56:16.890 --> 00:56:17.719
to me,

994
00:56:19.686 --> 00:56:22.206
and for the UN
human right system.

995
00:56:25.727 --> 00:56:27.901
But it by no means, erases

996
00:56:30.076 --> 00:56:33.769
seven years of detention
without charge.

997
00:56:34.908 --> 00:56:35.806
In prison,

998
00:56:36.945 --> 00:56:38.291
under house arrest,

999
00:56:39.810 --> 00:56:42.122
and almost five years here,

1000
00:56:42.157 --> 00:56:44.987
in this embassy
without sunlight.

1001
00:56:48.301 --> 00:56:51.097
Seven years without charge,

1002
00:56:51.131 --> 00:56:54.721
why my children
grew up without me.

1003
00:56:56.274 --> 00:56:59.174
That is not something
that I can forgive.

1004
00:57:00.347 --> 00:57:03.627
It is not something
that I can forget.

1005
00:57:03.661 --> 00:57:08.217
But let us understand, while
today was an important victory

1006
00:57:09.874 --> 00:57:14.879
and an important vindication,
the road is far from over.

1007
00:57:16.363 --> 00:57:19.746
The war, the proper
war is just commencing.

1008
00:57:21.507 --> 00:57:25.200
The UK has said it will
arrest me regardless.

1009
00:57:28.237 --> 00:57:31.102
Though the United States
CIA director Pompeo

1010
00:57:32.897 --> 00:57:36.280
and the US Attorney
General, have said that,

1011
00:57:36.314 --> 00:57:40.387
I and other Wikileaks
staff have no rights.

1012
00:57:40.422 --> 00:57:42.355
We have no first
amendment rights,

1013
00:57:42.389 --> 00:57:44.530
and then my arrest
and the arrest

1014
00:57:44.564 --> 00:57:47.602
of our other stuff
is a priority.

1015
00:57:47.636 --> 00:57:48.879
That's not acceptable.

1016
00:57:49.983 --> 00:57:52.848
WikiLeaks will continue
its publications.

1017
00:57:54.056 --> 00:57:57.301
The United Kingdom,
the European Union,

1018
00:57:57.335 --> 00:58:01.650
is a party to the 1951
convention on refugees.

1019
00:58:05.136 --> 00:58:09.416
It states that it adheres
to the right for all people

1020
00:58:09.451 --> 00:58:14.076
to seek asylum, to receive
asylum and to enjoy asylum.

1021
00:58:16.009 --> 00:58:18.391
I have that right, you
know, political case,

1022
00:58:18.425 --> 00:58:19.806
we all have that right.

1023
00:58:21.463 --> 00:58:25.018
So, the claim by the United
Kingdom indeed has a right

1024
00:58:25.053 --> 00:58:28.056
to arrest me for seeking asylum.

1025
00:58:29.333 --> 00:58:32.578
In a case where there
have been no charges,

1026
00:58:32.612 --> 00:58:35.546
which has now been dismissed,
is simply untenable.

1027
00:58:35.581 --> 00:58:40.102
The UK refuses to confirm
or deny at this stage,

1028
00:58:40.137 --> 00:58:42.691
whether a US extradition warrant

1029
00:58:42.726 --> 00:58:46.557
is already in the UK territory.

1030
00:58:46.592 --> 00:58:49.318
How can it be that a journalist

1031
00:58:49.353 --> 00:58:51.769
and publisher
operating from Europe.

1032
00:58:53.460 --> 00:58:57.499
I can be extradited
to the United States.

1033
00:58:57.534 --> 00:58:58.914
We don't operate in
the United States,

1034
00:58:58.949 --> 00:59:00.640
We don't publish from
the United States.

1035
00:59:00.675 --> 00:59:04.161
So that's a threat to all
journalists around the world,

1036
00:59:04.195 --> 00:59:05.818
wherever they operate.

1037
00:59:07.854 --> 00:59:10.581
That if they expose
serious abuses occurring

1038
00:59:10.616 --> 00:59:12.687
in the national security domain,

1039
00:59:12.721 --> 00:59:15.103
there's a threat
to extradite them

1040
00:59:18.416 --> 00:59:20.867
or indict their organization
and all their stuff.

1041
00:59:21.834 --> 00:59:23.836
Okay, that's it. Thanks, guys.

1042
00:59:23.870 --> 00:59:27.598
[reporters asking questions]

1043
00:59:38.402 --> 00:59:41.129
[crowd chanting in
foreign language]

1044
00:59:41.163 --> 00:59:42.786
- [Narrator] With one
obstacle out of the way,

1045
00:59:42.820 --> 00:59:45.271
another was just
coming into view.

1046
00:59:45.305 --> 00:59:48.205
[crowd chanting in
foreign language]

1047
00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:51.760
[foreign language]

1048
00:59:51.795 --> 00:59:54.073
- [Narrator] With
Lenin Moreno in power,

1049
00:59:54.107 --> 00:59:56.316
who knew the fate
of Julian Assange.

1050
01:00:02.806 --> 01:00:05.498
In the midst of the
unrest in Catalonia,

1051
01:00:05.532 --> 01:00:08.087
Assange tweets his
support for independence

1052
01:00:08.121 --> 01:00:10.089
and accuses Madrid
of repression.

1053
01:00:11.297 --> 01:00:14.058
Having been warned by
the new president Moreno

1054
01:00:14.093 --> 01:00:16.682
not to interfere
in allied politics.

1055
01:00:16.716 --> 01:00:20.789
Life inside the embassy was
becoming increasingly strained.

1056
01:00:23.343 --> 01:00:26.070
[dramatic music]

1057
01:00:30.281 --> 01:00:33.560
- Still bereft of sunlight
and cut off from the world.

1058
01:00:33.595 --> 01:00:37.806
Assange spent summer of 2018
in silence as noisy accusations

1059
01:00:37.841 --> 01:00:40.637
of his ties to Russia's
involvement in the 2016

1060
01:00:40.671 --> 01:00:42.846
US election were
being constructed.

1061
01:00:44.606 --> 01:00:46.815
March 2018.

1062
01:00:46.850 --> 01:00:49.784
For the second time time
Assange's internet access

1063
01:00:49.818 --> 01:00:51.924
and communications are cut off.

1064
01:00:51.958 --> 01:00:54.720
Barring any connection
to the outside world.

1065
01:01:00.242 --> 01:01:02.003
October 2018.

1066
01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:06.352
Assange launches a legal case,

1067
01:01:06.386 --> 01:01:09.735
accusing the newly formed
government headed by Moreno

1068
01:01:09.769 --> 01:01:13.877
of violating his fundamental
rights and freedoms.

1069
01:01:13.911 --> 01:01:16.673
Having had new rules
imposed on him,

1070
01:01:16.707 --> 01:01:19.710
designed to force him
out of the embassy.

1071
01:01:19.745 --> 01:01:24.266
Ruling a week later that legal
action cannot move forward.

1072
01:01:24.301 --> 01:01:26.890
With his rights in
doubt Julian remained

1073
01:01:26.924 --> 01:01:28.788
at the embassy,
awaiting his fate.

1074
01:01:32.550 --> 01:01:35.070
January 2019.

1075
01:01:35.105 --> 01:01:37.694
- [Ciaron] So my
relationship with Julian,

1076
01:01:38.833 --> 01:01:40.420
our friendship
goes back to 2000.

1077
01:01:40.455 --> 01:01:42.215
We were active in
Australia in the peace

1078
01:01:42.250 --> 01:01:43.596
and justice movement.

1079
01:01:43.630 --> 01:01:44.804
I was in prison in
the United States

1080
01:01:44.839 --> 01:01:47.151
for a year in the early 90s.

1081
01:01:47.186 --> 01:01:50.223
For disabling a B-52 bomber with three other people,

1082
01:01:50.258 --> 01:01:51.431
Catholic pacifists.

1083
01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:54.400
And, at that point Julian was 17

1084
01:01:54.434 --> 01:01:57.437
and had released
out the wank worm.

1085
01:01:57.472 --> 01:01:59.681
That's when as an activists
field he was arrested

1086
01:01:59.716 --> 01:02:01.718
and charged with 36
offenses for hacking.

1087
01:02:02.891 --> 01:02:04.893
Now he grew up and
moved on from activism

1088
01:02:04.928 --> 01:02:07.068
and he started
Wikileaks in 2006.

1089
01:02:07.102 --> 01:02:11.417
After being a single father
raising a child from 17 to 34.

1090
01:02:12.867 --> 01:02:16.180
130 days ago, I came here
feeling that his extraction

1091
01:02:16.215 --> 01:02:19.149
from this building was
inevitable and imminent.

1092
01:02:19.183 --> 01:02:21.496
And I've been here 130 days.

1093
01:02:22.669 --> 01:02:23.705
The only thing the
British are offering

1094
01:02:23.740 --> 01:02:24.948
for the breach of bail.

1095
01:02:24.982 --> 01:02:26.777
Usually bail is indicted
if you've been charged

1096
01:02:26.812 --> 01:02:28.710
with something,
you get out before.

1097
01:02:28.745 --> 01:02:30.298
But he hasn't been
charged with anything.

1098
01:02:30.332 --> 01:02:33.059
The Swedes finished
their investigation

1099
01:02:33.094 --> 01:02:34.854
and didn't charge him.

1100
01:02:34.889 --> 01:02:37.926
So it's just the substitutes
to do what the Americans want.

1101
01:02:38.893 --> 01:02:40.066
Which is what the Australians do

1102
01:02:40.101 --> 01:02:42.206
and the Irish do so
don't feel bad about it.

1103
01:02:42.241 --> 01:02:45.727
I mean, it's an empire, you
know, when the Americans

1104
01:02:45.762 --> 01:02:47.764
say jump the British, the
Irish, the Australians.

1105
01:02:47.798 --> 01:02:50.111
Go, high do you want us to jump?

1106
01:02:50.145 --> 01:02:51.422
Who do you want us to land on?

1107
01:02:51.457 --> 01:02:53.148
And how hard do you
want us to land on them?

1108
01:02:53.183 --> 01:02:54.080
Yeah, it's tragic,

1109
01:02:55.323 --> 01:02:56.565
it's like a slow
motion crucifixion.

1110
01:03:06.886 --> 01:03:08.577
- [Narrator] April 2019.

1111
01:03:08.612 --> 01:03:11.822
With ties becoming strained
between the WikiLeaks founder

1112
01:03:11.857 --> 01:03:15.170
and the new government, it
became increasingly more likely

1113
01:03:15.205 --> 01:03:17.483
Assange would be extradited.

1114
01:03:17.517 --> 01:03:20.589
Subsequently looking at
spending the rest of his life

1115
01:03:20.624 --> 01:03:22.488
rotting in solitary confinement

1116
01:03:22.522 --> 01:03:24.593
in the United
States prison cell.

1117
01:03:27.769 --> 01:03:28.805
It's April 10th,

1118
01:03:29.978 --> 01:03:31.462
and these days my
solidarity with Julian

1119
01:03:31.497 --> 01:03:34.155
being here 24 hours,
seven days a week.

1120
01:03:34.189 --> 01:03:36.640
But I was at the first
court appearance of Julian,

1121
01:03:36.674 --> 01:03:38.884
when he walked in voluntarily
to Kennedy Township

1122
01:03:38.918 --> 01:03:41.438
police station
December 7th 2010.

1123
01:03:43.302 --> 01:03:46.408
[reporters shouting]

1124
01:03:46.443 --> 01:03:48.790
Well different people have
different entry points.

1125
01:03:48.825 --> 01:03:50.757
I'm a bit dyslexic,
I'm not very techy.

1126
01:03:51.897 --> 01:03:53.864
My entry point as an
anti-war activist.

1127
01:03:53.899 --> 01:03:56.177
I'm part of Pacifist
Catholic Worker Movement

1128
01:03:56.211 --> 01:03:58.179
has been going since the 30s.

1129
01:03:58.213 --> 01:04:01.768
People were jailed in World
War two for anti conscription.

1130
01:04:01.803 --> 01:04:03.978
We were the first people to
burn draft cards publicly

1131
01:04:04.012 --> 01:04:06.049
in the early part
of the Vietnam War.

1132
01:04:06.083 --> 01:04:08.499
And then two priests
Daniel and Philip Berrigan

1133
01:04:08.534 --> 01:04:10.363
led the Draft Board
Raid Movement.

1134
01:04:10.398 --> 01:04:12.952
Where people, nuns and
priests and laity would break

1135
01:04:12.987 --> 01:04:14.920
into draft boards, and
destroy draft files.

1136
01:04:14.954 --> 01:04:17.543
And it's kind of interesting because Dan and Phil were on

1137
01:04:17.577 --> 01:04:20.132
the front page of
Time magazine in 1968.

1138
01:04:20.166 --> 01:04:21.961
Julian was in 2010.

1139
01:04:21.996 --> 01:04:23.687
And then Hoover and
Nixon had a meeting

1140
01:04:23.721 --> 01:04:25.344
about how to marginalize them.

1141
01:04:25.378 --> 01:04:27.967
And I'm sure similar meetings
have happened without Julian

1142
01:04:28.002 --> 01:04:29.348
and they were quite successful.

1143
01:04:29.382 --> 01:04:32.247
In both instances, of
radicalizing any support

1144
01:04:32.282 --> 01:04:33.179
and marginalizing.

1145
01:04:34.629 --> 01:04:36.389
Some of my prison conditions
in different places have been

1146
01:04:36.424 --> 01:04:37.943
worse and some have been better.

1147
01:04:37.977 --> 01:04:40.635
The most significant
part of it being worse

1148
01:04:40.669 --> 01:04:42.257
is this is sensory deprivation.

1149
01:04:42.292 --> 01:04:44.501
There's no change
in heat or cold,

1150
01:04:44.535 --> 01:04:46.917
no ability to see
more than five meters.

1151
01:04:46.952 --> 01:04:48.988
No healthcare access.

1152
01:04:49.023 --> 01:04:53.096
So it's changed for four or
five different ambassadors,

1153
01:04:53.130 --> 01:04:54.442
since he went in there.

1154
01:04:55.961 --> 01:04:57.307
And they sacked the ambassador

1155
01:04:57.341 --> 01:04:58.929
and half the staff in December.

1156
01:04:58.964 --> 01:05:02.277
Probably because they thought
that he was too sympathetic

1157
01:05:02.312 --> 01:05:04.486
and then just made the
environment much more toxic.

1158
01:05:04.521 --> 01:05:07.006
Like there's a live feed to
Quito from in that building.

1159
01:05:07.041 --> 01:05:08.905
There's more and more cameras.

1160
01:05:08.939 --> 01:05:12.218
That's what we hear from John
Pilger and others who visited.

1161
01:05:12.253 --> 01:05:14.151
So they're trying
to push him out

1162
01:05:14.186 --> 01:05:15.325
and they're having difficulties

1163
01:05:15.359 --> 01:05:17.223
cause he's an
Ecuadorian citizen.

1164
01:05:18.707 --> 01:05:20.951
So leak happened last week
from within the government

1165
01:05:20.986 --> 01:05:23.298
that he had hours or days left.

1166
01:05:23.333 --> 01:05:24.575
If that leak had not happened,

1167
01:05:24.610 --> 01:05:26.577
he'd probably be gone by now.

1168
01:05:26.612 --> 01:05:30.167
But on Friday 40 Media
turned up and now that's just

1169
01:05:30.202 --> 01:05:34.344
a lot of them going,
from roughly doing 24/7.

1170
01:05:36.311 --> 01:05:38.969
[soft music]

1171
01:05:39.004 --> 01:05:41.834
He won't surrender, he'll
be dragged out eventually

1172
01:05:41.868 --> 01:05:44.285
and he'll be put in prison here.

1173
01:05:44.319 --> 01:05:46.943
Facing extradition
he'll fight that.

1174
01:05:46.977 --> 01:05:48.599
What I hope to do is
move there and try

1175
01:05:48.634 --> 01:05:51.016
and get a support group
going around the prison,

1176
01:05:52.534 --> 01:05:54.019
And because as a
former prisoner, I
know the significance

1177
01:05:54.053 --> 01:05:55.261
of solidarity basically.

1178
01:06:00.025 --> 01:06:02.372
They've set up protocols
hoping he'll break them.

1179
01:06:02.406 --> 01:06:06.479
I believe that one of them is
he can't come to the window.

1180
01:06:06.514 --> 01:06:09.517
You know, so he's only
ever spoken four times,

1181
01:06:09.551 --> 01:06:10.414
from the balcony.

1182
01:06:11.553 --> 01:06:12.830
Yeah, so there's good
people everywhere.

1183
01:06:12.865 --> 01:06:15.143
And that was my
feeling in prison too.

1184
01:06:15.178 --> 01:06:16.834
But it is a bit like
prison in the sense

1185
01:06:16.869 --> 01:06:18.940
that I'm restricted
to certain area.

1186
01:06:18.975 --> 01:06:20.907
But you find good
people everywhere.

1187
01:06:20.942 --> 01:06:22.875
And you find threats
everywhere too.

1188
01:06:24.325 --> 01:06:27.707
Apparently Wikileaks
have found one [laughs]

1189
01:06:27.742 --> 01:06:32.126
So yeah, there's news that
they've been infiltrated,

1190
01:06:32.160 --> 01:06:33.748
or something like that.

1191
01:06:33.782 --> 01:06:35.853
- [Narrator] April 10th 2019

1192
01:06:37.165 --> 01:06:39.512
News emerges of an
extensive spying campaign

1193
01:06:39.547 --> 01:06:41.238
orchestrated on Assange.

1194
01:06:42.929 --> 01:06:45.311
- Let me just begin with
telling you the basics.

1195
01:06:47.831 --> 01:06:50.868
The new and unexpected thing that just came into light

1196
01:06:50.903 --> 01:06:52.353
in the last few days.

1197
01:06:52.387 --> 01:06:56.874
Is that Wikileaks uncovered an extensive spying operation

1198
01:06:58.221 --> 01:07:00.602
against Julian Assange within
the Ecuadorian embassy.

1199
01:07:04.089 --> 01:07:09.059
It entails a total invasion
of privacy of Mr. Assange.

1200
01:07:10.198 --> 01:07:11.510
- [Kristinn] What we
have established is that

1201
01:07:11.544 --> 01:07:14.754
security cameras
were used to monitor

1202
01:07:14.789 --> 01:07:19.069
his every move, his every
meeting with visitors.

1203
01:07:20.105 --> 01:07:22.072
- One thing is absolutely clear,

1204
01:07:23.418 --> 01:07:24.799
with the new government,

1205
01:07:24.833 --> 01:07:26.904
Ecuador is not protecting Julian anymore.

1206
01:07:28.941 --> 01:07:30.874
It's not protecting
him as it should,

1207
01:07:32.186 --> 01:07:34.809
since it granted him
political asylum.

1208
01:07:36.121 --> 01:07:38.468
Quite the contrary,

1209
01:07:38.502 --> 01:07:40.953
the government is
making everything

1210
01:07:40.987 --> 01:07:43.473
possible to end the asylum.

1211
01:07:45.164 --> 01:07:48.926
- [Fidel] And the only reason,
why it hasn't happened yet,

1212
01:07:50.445 --> 01:07:52.965
is because the
international shame,

1213
01:07:56.002 --> 01:08:00.421
the historic shame, that
will be entitled to Ecuador.

1214
01:08:04.218 --> 01:08:08.360
We know since January
that there was a request

1215
01:08:08.394 --> 01:08:11.915
by the US government to Ecuador,

1216
01:08:11.949 --> 01:08:15.677
to allow the
interrogation of diplomats

1217
01:08:15.712 --> 01:08:18.611
that worked in the
Ecuadorian embassy,

1218
01:08:18.646 --> 01:08:21.131
in relations to an
ongoing investigation,

1219
01:08:21.166 --> 01:08:22.374
criminal investigation,

1220
01:08:24.376 --> 01:08:25.894
and to WikiLeaks
and Julian Assange.

1221
01:08:27.172 --> 01:08:29.967
And we know that the Ecuadorian
government did comply.

1222
01:08:31.383 --> 01:08:34.110
We also know that there
was a request to hand over

1223
01:08:34.144 --> 01:08:39.115
visitors logs from the embassy
and video recordings from

1224
01:08:40.254 --> 01:08:42.048
within the security
cameras in the embassy.

1225
01:08:42.083 --> 01:08:45.604
So we assume that this material,
this extensive material

1226
01:08:47.019 --> 01:08:48.296
that has been gathered
has been handed over

1227
01:08:48.331 --> 01:08:49.746
to the Trump administration.

1228
01:08:50.574 --> 01:08:51.782
- [Fidel] Let's remember
that Julian Assange

1229
01:08:51.817 --> 01:08:53.163
is not serving any sentence.

1230
01:08:54.268 --> 01:08:55.683
He doesn't have any charges.

1231
01:08:57.202 --> 01:08:58.755
He is a political refugee.

1232
01:08:59.928 --> 01:09:02.517
Political refugees
do not lose rights,

1233
01:09:04.001 --> 01:09:07.004
on the contrary, they should
have their rights protected.

1234
01:09:08.178 --> 01:09:11.768
What we have here is
a clearly human rights

1235
01:09:11.802 --> 01:09:13.563
violation of a journalist.

1236
01:09:15.081 --> 01:09:17.567
- The Moreno government in
Ecuador has been all too willing

1237
01:09:19.016 --> 01:09:23.952
to help out by pushing Julian
Assange out of the embassy.

1238
01:09:25.471 --> 01:09:29.234
This attempt to have this
done has been escalating

1239
01:09:29.268 --> 01:09:31.995
in the last few
weeks and even days.

1240
01:09:33.928 --> 01:09:36.862
And even last week,
we heard that he was,

1241
01:09:36.896 --> 01:09:40.452
from very reliable sources
on Friday to this race

1242
01:09:40.486 --> 01:09:43.627
that was imminent that
he would be evicted

1243
01:09:43.662 --> 01:09:45.664
from the embassy and arrested.

1244
01:09:47.113 --> 01:09:50.910
On learning Moreno's orders,
the president of Equador.

1245
01:09:50.945 --> 01:09:54.569
The only reason why this
was averted, in our opinion,

1246
01:09:54.604 --> 01:09:56.675
is the fact that we
learned about it.

1247
01:09:56.709 --> 01:10:00.679
And we were able to
publish that information.

1248
01:10:00.713 --> 01:10:01.852
That was the only reason why

1249
01:10:01.887 --> 01:10:04.545
that was stopped
probably temporarily.

1250
01:10:15.418 --> 01:10:18.214
- [Ciaron] When I came here
138 days ago, whatever it was,

1251
01:10:18.248 --> 01:10:20.699
I expected him to be
lifted that night.

1252
01:10:20.733 --> 01:10:23.978
So they've obviously backed
off because of the leak.

1253
01:10:24.012 --> 01:10:26.912
The more observing that's
going on, but more presence

1254
01:10:26.946 --> 01:10:29.811
the safer it is to Julian
so it's good at the moment.

1255
01:10:29.846 --> 01:10:32.435
There seems to be about five people here which is good

1256
01:10:32.469 --> 01:10:34.575
because often it's just me.

1257
01:10:34.609 --> 01:10:37.405
That red car there that's probably embassy police.

1258
01:10:37.440 --> 01:10:41.167
- [Ciaron] They're armed and
they do a circuit every hour

1259
01:10:41.202 --> 01:10:44.861
but they've been back about
four times in past hour now.

1260
01:10:44.895 --> 01:10:47.208
Two nights ago a van pulled
up right in front of me,

1261
01:10:47.243 --> 01:10:50.625
another guy, cop got
out a machine gun

1262
01:10:50.660 --> 01:10:52.869
and part of this is just
to stress him out mentally

1263
01:10:52.903 --> 01:10:56.010
you know, it's the kind
of low intensity conflict

1264
01:10:56.044 --> 01:10:57.045
on his mental health.

1265
01:10:58.461 --> 01:11:01.118
- [Ciaron] I would think
this Lenin Marino who seems

1266
01:11:01.153 --> 01:11:03.949
to be keen to turn Ecuador
back into a US colony

1267
01:11:03.983 --> 01:11:05.640
and you know, the
history of South America

1268
01:11:05.675 --> 01:11:07.780
and United States
post World War Two.

1269
01:11:07.815 --> 01:11:10.300
Is the US toppling democratic
government after democratic

1270
01:11:10.335 --> 01:11:12.613
government and putting
military juntas in.

1271
01:11:12.647 --> 01:11:14.304
- [Ciaron] It's a
toxic hostile staff now

1272
01:11:14.339 --> 01:11:16.099
compared to what preceded it.

1273
01:11:16.133 --> 01:11:17.549
Like he was invited in,

1274
01:11:19.551 --> 01:11:21.104
by the president Correa who now,

1275
01:11:21.138 --> 01:11:22.933
has an arrest warrant
issued on him.

1276
01:11:24.901 --> 01:11:26.523
The president who
invited him in,

1277
01:11:28.663 --> 01:11:31.425
is now at large trying
to get asylum in Belgium.

1278
01:11:31.459 --> 01:11:34.324
So this place has gone
from a sanctuary to a trap.

1279
01:11:35.567 --> 01:11:38.880
And the Special
Branch are here 24/7.

1280
01:11:38.915 --> 01:11:43.299
And they're probably
number 18, that's my guess.

1281
01:11:45.024 --> 01:11:47.268
And there is no where to
do a run up from here.

1282
01:11:49.132 --> 01:11:52.135
- [Crowd] Free,
free Julian Assange.

1283
01:11:53.688 --> 01:11:57.313
- Well, what does it mean
to journalism you know like,

1284
01:11:57.347 --> 01:11:59.211
Chomsky calls
mainstream journalists,

1285
01:11:59.245 --> 01:12:00.661
the demographers of power,

1286
01:12:00.695 --> 01:12:04.389
which is this real, journalism
is questioning the story

1287
01:12:04.423 --> 01:12:06.356
behind the story and yeah.

1288
01:12:06.391 --> 01:12:08.496
The lack of transparency
just leads to corruption.

1289
01:12:08.531 --> 01:12:11.361
Everything can become corrupt
Christianity, communism,

1290
01:12:11.396 --> 01:12:14.709
capitalism, democracy, feminism.

1291
01:12:15.883 --> 01:12:17.954
So you've got to
have transparency

1292
01:12:19.058 --> 01:12:20.646
and power to be held to account.

1293
01:12:21.820 --> 01:12:23.166
It's the death of
free expression.

1294
01:12:34.971 --> 01:12:37.214
He's very resolute and
he's very convinced

1295
01:12:37.249 --> 01:12:39.009
with the significance
of his work.

1296
01:12:39.044 --> 01:12:42.530
And, but obviously is starved
of intellectual stimulation

1297
01:12:42.565 --> 01:12:43.566
which he thrives on.

1298
01:12:46.638 --> 01:12:48.847
No one could argue that he
could be a multimillionaire

1299
01:12:48.881 --> 01:12:51.056
poolside Silicon Valley.

1300
01:12:51.090 --> 01:12:54.231
And he's decided to you
know, give the gifts

1301
01:12:54.266 --> 01:12:57.165
I believe God gave
him to expose the rich

1302
01:12:57.200 --> 01:12:59.547
and powerful wage
constant war on the poor.

1303
01:13:01.618 --> 01:13:03.620
And, you know, that's
pretty impressive.

1304
01:13:05.657 --> 01:13:08.176
It's very similar to the
story of John the baptist

1305
01:13:08.211 --> 01:13:11.041
in that sense that you
had a collaborator King,

1306
01:13:11.076 --> 01:13:15.977
a Jewish King Herod, who
wanted to appease the empire,

1307
01:13:16.978 --> 01:13:18.428
Roman happens to
be American now,

1308
01:13:18.463 --> 01:13:20.326
and delivered the
head of a prophet.

1309
01:13:20.361 --> 01:13:22.052
And what is a prophet?

1310
01:13:22.087 --> 01:13:23.847
A prophet doesn't necessarily
have to be a really nice guy.

1311
01:13:23.882 --> 01:13:24.572
That's a saint.

1312
01:13:25.746 --> 01:13:28.334
A prophet is someone who
speaks truth to power.

1313
01:13:28.369 --> 01:13:31.268
And as Oscar Wilde who used
to live in this building said,

1314
01:13:32.649 --> 01:13:34.927
If you tell people the truth,
and don't make them laugh,

1315
01:13:34.962 --> 01:13:36.584
they'll wanna kill you.

1316
01:13:36.619 --> 01:13:38.621
So Julian probably
needs a gag rider.

1317
01:13:56.466 --> 01:13:59.055
- [Narrator] April 11th 2019.

1318
01:14:03.266 --> 01:14:04.957
In the early hours
of the morning,

1319
01:14:04.992 --> 01:14:06.925
to avoid any commotion
on the wealthy

1320
01:14:06.959 --> 01:14:08.409
streets of Knightsbridge.

1321
01:14:11.757 --> 01:14:14.484
A frail and weaker
Assange is carried down

1322
01:14:14.519 --> 01:14:18.177
the very steps he walked
up over seven years ago.

1323
01:14:18.212 --> 01:14:20.594
After the Ecuadorian
government saw fit

1324
01:14:20.628 --> 01:14:22.872
to invite the British
police inside.

1325
01:14:27.497 --> 01:14:30.742
[crowd shouting]

1326
01:14:30.776 --> 01:14:32.260
Seen on Ruptly.

1327
01:14:39.923 --> 01:14:43.962
Media campaigns to discredit
the infamous publisher evolved

1328
01:14:43.996 --> 01:14:46.999
leaked videos from inside
the Ecuadorian embassy

1329
01:14:47.034 --> 01:14:49.450
and comments made by
Merino's embassy staff

1330
01:14:49.485 --> 01:14:50.969
on his personal hygiene,

1331
01:14:51.003 --> 01:14:52.764
gave the government
enough ammunition

1332
01:14:52.798 --> 01:14:54.973
to rid themselves of Assange.

1333
01:14:55.007 --> 01:14:57.769
Handing him over to
the British police.

1334
01:14:57.803 --> 01:15:01.462
A stark contrast to
the government that
provided his asylum.

1335
01:15:03.947 --> 01:15:07.123
- Those allegations
are a smear campaign,

1336
01:15:08.331 --> 01:15:11.334
smoking screen made
by the government.

1337
01:15:11.368 --> 01:15:13.060
In order to cover,

1338
01:15:14.337 --> 01:15:15.752
the fundamental thing.

1339
01:15:15.787 --> 01:15:19.135
The fundamental thing
here is that Ecuador

1340
01:15:20.343 --> 01:15:23.760
has handed over a
political refugee,

1341
01:15:23.795 --> 01:15:26.936
to his persecutors.

1342
01:15:26.970 --> 01:15:30.871
Ecuador has breached
every single legislation

1343
01:15:30.905 --> 01:15:34.012
on political asylum
and refugee there is.

1344
01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:38.568
So that's in a sense a crime,

1345
01:15:38.603 --> 01:15:40.052
and in order to cover that

1346
01:15:40.087 --> 01:15:43.987
they need to bring their
attention to something else.

1347
01:15:44.022 --> 01:15:46.990
It's outrageous, it's
absolutely outrageous.

1348
01:15:47.025 --> 01:15:49.130
It was basically a kidnapping,

1349
01:15:50.615 --> 01:15:54.653
he didn't walk out by his own
will, outside of the embassy.

1350
01:15:55.896 --> 01:15:58.174
He was dragged by force,

1351
01:16:01.349 --> 01:16:04.905
he refuse and he
was right to refuse.

1352
01:16:07.804 --> 01:16:10.048
He became Ecuadorian
during this time.

1353
01:16:11.636 --> 01:16:12.671
That was his embassy.

1354
01:16:13.845 --> 01:16:16.330
According to the
Ecuadorian constitution,

1355
01:16:16.364 --> 01:16:19.575
no Ecuadorian could
be extradited ever.

1356
01:16:22.267 --> 01:16:23.751
- Good day, well look at that.

1357
01:16:26.892 --> 01:16:28.100
- Another last one.

1358
01:16:28.135 --> 01:16:30.033
- [Alan] Can I say we are very grateful to the ambassador

1359
01:16:30.068 --> 01:16:32.242
and to president Moreno.

1360
01:16:32.277 --> 01:16:34.486
For bringing this
to a conclusion,

1361
01:16:34.520 --> 01:16:36.937
I think everyone is pleased that

1362
01:16:36.971 --> 01:16:38.455
this has finally come to an end.

1363
01:16:38.490 --> 01:16:41.079
And I think it will signal
ever improving relations

1364
01:16:41.113 --> 01:16:43.668
between the United
Kingdom and Ecuador,

1365
01:16:43.702 --> 01:16:45.842
and we look forward to such.

1366
01:16:45.877 --> 01:16:48.258
Increased activities
over the years ahead.

1367
01:16:48.293 --> 01:16:50.295
So thank you once
again ambassador.

1368
01:16:50.329 --> 01:16:51.158
Thank you.

1369
01:17:01.168 --> 01:17:03.549
- [Narrator] Meanwhile,
in the United States,

1370
01:17:03.584 --> 01:17:07.208
the indictment showing
Julian's charges is unsealed,

1371
01:17:07.243 --> 01:17:10.660
revealing the charge
to be a conspiracy

1372
01:17:10.695 --> 01:17:13.111
to commit computer intrusion.

1373
01:17:13.145 --> 01:17:15.596
No new information is disclosed.

1374
01:17:15.631 --> 01:17:18.116
- Now you have all probably
heard about the indictment

1375
01:17:18.150 --> 01:17:19.704
and the nature of
the indictments.

1376
01:17:19.738 --> 01:17:21.533
Which I think are very revealing

1377
01:17:21.567 --> 01:17:24.053
about the nature of
this entire case.

1378
01:17:24.087 --> 01:17:28.126
It is based, 17 as
was pointed out,

1379
01:17:28.160 --> 01:17:31.163
by the indictments
on the Espionage Act,

1380
01:17:33.787 --> 01:17:36.617
which is an archaic
legal framework

1381
01:17:36.652 --> 01:17:39.482
from the World War One period,

1382
01:17:39.516 --> 01:17:42.968
and has never in its
102 years history

1383
01:17:43.003 --> 01:17:46.316
been used against the publisher

1384
01:17:46.351 --> 01:17:48.180
and the journalists,
never before.

1385
01:17:48.215 --> 01:17:51.494
- What is now going on is that

1386
01:17:51.528 --> 01:17:55.118
the United States is
of course furious.

1387
01:17:55.153 --> 01:17:57.534
It's the first elephant in the room breaking everything.

1388
01:17:57.569 --> 01:18:00.710
It's furious, and it's violating

1389
01:18:00.745 --> 01:18:02.160
a lot of fundamental rights.

1390
01:18:03.886 --> 01:18:06.233
- [Kristinn] This is
a watershed moment

1391
01:18:06.267 --> 01:18:08.131
for the preservation
of journalism

1392
01:18:08.166 --> 01:18:10.755
This is about press freedom.

1393
01:18:11.894 --> 01:18:14.620
The Assange case and
his extradition request

1394
01:18:14.655 --> 01:18:17.278
and this case is more than just

1395
01:18:17.313 --> 01:18:22.214
something pertains to one
person, or one organization.

1396
01:18:22.249 --> 01:18:26.080
This is about the future of
press freedom in our part

1397
01:18:26.115 --> 01:18:28.876
of the world where we have
been rather privileged

1398
01:18:28.911 --> 01:18:32.293
with relatively good standing.

1399
01:18:32.328 --> 01:18:34.192
It is a crackdown
on press freedom,

1400
01:18:35.849 --> 01:18:36.712
nothing less.

1401
01:18:39.404 --> 01:18:43.926
Publishing of documents,
of videos of the killing

1402
01:18:43.960 --> 01:18:47.861
of innocent civilians,
exposure of war crimes.

1403
01:18:47.895 --> 01:18:51.761
This is journalism,
it's called conspiracy.

1404
01:18:51.796 --> 01:18:54.660
It's conspiracy to
commit journalism.

1405
01:18:54.695 --> 01:18:57.422
- [Geoffrey] I have faith in
the British justice system.

1406
01:18:57.456 --> 01:19:01.115
And I think he will argue

1407
01:19:01.150 --> 01:19:04.774
that this is a breach of his
right to freedom of speech

1408
01:19:04.809 --> 01:19:08.398
which we uphold to an extent.

1409
01:19:08.433 --> 01:19:13.265
To throw him to the American wolves who are determined

1410
01:19:13.300 --> 01:19:16.061
to jail him for a long time.

1411
01:19:16.096 --> 01:19:20.479
So, yes, I've got
faith that the British

1412
01:19:20.514 --> 01:19:23.897
justice system may prevent that.

1413
01:19:23.931 --> 01:19:27.832
As to the American justice
system, ending up in the

1414
01:19:27.866 --> 01:19:29.868
Supreme Court in a few years,

1415
01:19:29.903 --> 01:19:34.908
with the majority of Trump
appointees, I'm not so sure.

1416
01:19:41.500 --> 01:19:46.333
- May 1st 2019,
Southwark Crown Court.

1417
01:19:46.367 --> 01:19:48.922
Assange is handed a
50 week jail sentence,

1418
01:19:48.956 --> 01:19:50.130
for breaching bail.

1419
01:19:51.683 --> 01:19:54.410
[crowd shouting]

1420
01:19:55.756 --> 01:19:58.586
- [Kristinn] To get a
sentence only two weeks short

1421
01:19:58.621 --> 01:20:01.727
of the maximum
sentence, is an outrage.

1422
01:20:02.901 --> 01:20:05.939
It's almost double the
sentencing guideline.

1423
01:20:07.906 --> 01:20:10.426
And may I point out
just into comparison,

1424
01:20:11.634 --> 01:20:13.463
that the so called
speedboat killer.

1425
01:20:14.844 --> 01:20:18.952
Got six months for not
showing up in court,

1426
01:20:18.986 --> 01:20:20.988
to hear his sentencing
for manslaughter.

1427
01:20:23.888 --> 01:20:28.409
But the fight continues
tomorrow is the big fight,

1428
01:20:28.444 --> 01:20:31.240
the start of a big and
the most important fight.

1429
01:20:31.274 --> 01:20:33.863
The fight against the
extradition of Julian Assange

1430
01:20:33.898 --> 01:20:34.968
to the United States.

1431
01:20:37.177 --> 01:20:38.385
What is at stake there?

1432
01:20:39.904 --> 01:20:42.044
Could be a question
of life and death,

1433
01:20:42.078 --> 01:20:42.907
for Mr. Assange.

1434
01:20:46.151 --> 01:20:50.086
It is also a question
of life and death,

1435
01:20:51.812 --> 01:20:54.332
for a major
journalistic principle.

1436
01:20:56.161 --> 01:20:58.784
- [Narrator] May 2nd 2019.

1437
01:20:58.819 --> 01:21:01.787
Assange appears via a video
link in one of the smallest

1438
01:21:01.822 --> 01:21:04.307
court rooms at
Wesminster Magistrates.

1439
01:21:04.342 --> 01:21:06.862
With the session only
lasting 10 minutes,

1440
01:21:06.896 --> 01:21:09.450
a new procedural
hearing date is set.

1441
01:21:11.211 --> 01:21:14.352
This is a matter of life
and death for Assange.

1442
01:21:18.943 --> 01:21:19.978
May 7th 2019.

1443
01:21:21.635 --> 01:21:24.327
Visitors of Julian approach
the assembled media

1444
01:21:24.362 --> 01:21:26.536
outside Belmarsh prison.

1445
01:21:26.571 --> 01:21:28.780
- I think I speak for both
of us that we are quite

1446
01:21:28.814 --> 01:21:33.302
emotional after this first
social visit that Julian's

1447
01:21:33.336 --> 01:21:36.753
allowed after being
in here for a month.

1448
01:21:36.788 --> 01:21:39.377
- Obviously, it's been
very difficult to see

1449
01:21:40.965 --> 01:21:44.658
Julian here and to make our way through the prison

1450
01:21:44.692 --> 01:21:48.144
to get to him was quite
shocking and difficult.

1451
01:21:49.663 --> 01:21:52.977
He does not deserve to be in a super max prison.

1452
01:21:53.011 --> 01:21:55.565
He has never committed
a violent act.

1453
01:21:55.600 --> 01:21:57.015
He's an innocent person.

1454
01:21:57.050 --> 01:22:00.467
You know justice will
depend on public support.

1455
01:22:02.676 --> 01:22:05.886
- I guess he lost about
20 pounds, at least.

1456
01:22:07.853 --> 01:22:10.132
- The visiting hours
are very, very precious.

1457
01:22:10.166 --> 01:22:11.305
Sorry I'm really upset.

1458
01:22:15.275 --> 01:22:18.864
Julian is a gentle, intellectual

1459
01:22:18.899 --> 01:22:21.384
in a maximum security prison,

1460
01:22:21.419 --> 01:22:23.835
it's just very
moving to see Julian

1461
01:22:25.354 --> 01:22:29.082
particularly in those
circumstances coming
out of sick bay

1462
01:22:29.116 --> 01:22:33.569
and having lost 10 kilograms
weight considerable terms.

1463
01:22:33.603 --> 01:22:34.570
When loosing weight

1464
01:22:36.261 --> 01:22:38.539
and being a little ill

1465
01:22:40.196 --> 01:22:41.715
is a big challenge.

1466
01:22:41.749 --> 01:22:44.235
But fighting spirit is there and he's still bossy.

1467
01:22:46.823 --> 01:22:49.723
- [Narrator] May 23rd 2019.

1468
01:22:49.757 --> 01:22:53.244
Assange is accused of 17
new charges brought forward

1469
01:22:53.278 --> 01:22:55.246
by the justice department.

1470
01:22:55.280 --> 01:22:58.904
The indictment states that
Mr. Assange had repeatedly

1471
01:22:58.939 --> 01:23:02.218
encouraged sources with access
to classified information,

1472
01:23:02.253 --> 01:23:05.739
to steal and provide it
to Wikileaks to disclose.

1473
01:23:05.773 --> 01:23:07.327
No evidence was shown.

1474
01:23:14.230 --> 01:23:16.715
May 30th 2019.

1475
01:23:18.407 --> 01:23:20.996
News is released that
Assange is too ill

1476
01:23:21.030 --> 01:23:22.204
to attend the hearing.

1477
01:23:23.446 --> 01:23:25.828
Resurfacing rumors
of his poor health,

1478
01:23:25.862 --> 01:23:28.141
even signs of
psychological torture.

1479
01:23:29.038 --> 01:23:31.454
[soft music]

1480
01:24:02.451 --> 01:24:04.556
The complicated
extradition process,

1481
01:24:04.591 --> 01:24:07.283
which involves both Sweden
and the United States

1482
01:24:07.318 --> 01:24:10.562
and deals with press freedom
and national security issues,

1483
01:24:10.597 --> 01:24:13.772
is expected to last for
months or years to come.

1484
01:24:16.982 --> 01:24:18.639
June 11th 2019.

1485
01:24:21.194 --> 01:24:24.266
United States submit
an extradition request.

1486
01:24:24.300 --> 01:24:27.338
Sajid Javid confirms
and signs the request,

1487
01:24:27.372 --> 01:24:30.410
setting up the
extradition case in 2020,

1488
01:24:30.444 --> 01:24:33.620
the very case he fears most.

1489
01:24:33.654 --> 01:24:35.553
- [Geoffrey] Because
of the cruelty

1490
01:24:35.587 --> 01:24:37.072
of the British government.

1491
01:24:37.106 --> 01:24:40.454
He hasn't been allowed even to go to a hospital for a day,

1492
01:24:40.489 --> 01:24:44.286
to get his chest scanned, he has a bad chest condition

1493
01:24:44.320 --> 01:24:47.185
according to specialist doctors.

1494
01:24:47.220 --> 01:24:49.394
And so that has
not been allowed,

1495
01:24:49.429 --> 01:24:52.639
maybe allowed in a
British prison hospital.

1496
01:24:52.673 --> 01:24:57.092
But the conditions in an
American super max prison

1497
01:24:57.126 --> 01:24:59.887
are quite horrific
and his freedom

1498
01:24:59.922 --> 01:25:03.236
and his spirit may
well be broken.

1499
01:25:03.270 --> 01:25:07.205
He has a strong spirit, a
spirit which is determined

1500
01:25:07.240 --> 01:25:11.244
to publish whatever he comes
across or is sent to him,

1501
01:25:11.278 --> 01:25:13.142
which is of public interest.

1502
01:25:13.177 --> 01:25:17.422
And remember that history
books are now being informed

1503
01:25:17.457 --> 01:25:21.599
by WikiLeaks revelations
hardly a week goes by

1504
01:25:21.633 --> 01:25:26.638
without the news based on
some Wikileaks revelation.

1505
01:25:28.088 --> 01:25:31.195
So he's sacrificed a lot
for his belief in freedom

1506
01:25:31.229 --> 01:25:34.681
of speech and the issue
will be whether our judges

1507
01:25:34.715 --> 01:25:39.375
and perhaps eventually American
judges have the same relief,

1508
01:25:39.410 --> 01:25:41.274
or whether they're hypocrites.

1509
01:25:41.308 --> 01:25:44.622
- This deep disparity with the
US is about to be laid bare

1510
01:25:44.656 --> 01:25:47.935
when the courts decide whether the WikiLeaks publisher

1511
01:25:47.970 --> 01:25:51.801
Julian Assange will beextradited to the US on charges

1512
01:25:51.836 --> 01:25:55.633
of espionage for
exposing war crimes,

1513
01:25:55.667 --> 01:25:59.982
the murder of civilians
and large scale corruption.

1514
01:26:00.016 --> 01:26:03.848
Will the prime minister agree
with the parliamentary report

1515
01:26:03.882 --> 01:26:07.092
that's going to the Council of
Europe that this extradition

1516
01:26:07.127 --> 01:26:11.580
should be opposed and
the rights of journalists

1517
01:26:11.614 --> 01:26:15.894
and whistleblowers are held
for the good of all of us?

1518
01:26:17.241 --> 01:26:18.656
- Prime minister.

1519
01:26:18.690 --> 01:26:21.141
- Mr. Speaker, I'm not gonna
comment on any individual case.

1520
01:26:21.176 --> 01:26:23.385
But it is obvious that the rights of journalists

1521
01:26:23.419 --> 01:26:25.249
and whistleblowers
should be upheld

1522
01:26:25.283 --> 01:26:28.252
and this government will clearly continue to do that.

1523
01:26:28.286 --> 01:26:29.770
[crowd chanting]

1524
01:26:29.805 --> 01:26:32.877
- [Narrator] February 24 2020.

1525
01:26:32.911 --> 01:26:35.811
Crowds gather at
Woolwich crime court

1526
01:26:35.845 --> 01:26:38.262
in support of the
brave publisher.

1527
01:26:38.296 --> 01:26:42.197
- From the angel of democracy and nobody knows more

1528
01:26:42.231 --> 01:26:45.959
about democracy than Julian Assange, it's not a crime,

1529
01:26:45.993 --> 01:26:47.512
to publish American war crimes,

1530
01:26:47.547 --> 01:26:49.894
it's in the interests democracy.

1531
01:26:51.344 --> 01:26:54.139
[crowd chanting]

1532
01:26:59.835 --> 01:27:04.322
- Robert Gates, ex secretary of defense before congress

1533
01:27:04.357 --> 01:27:06.980
in a testimony said
that, it's awkward

1534
01:27:07.014 --> 01:27:11.018
embarrassing, that
no damage was done.

1535
01:27:11.053 --> 01:27:15.885
I'll note that the prosecutor
didn't err give one example

1536
01:27:15.920 --> 01:27:18.233
of a broken fingernail.

1537
01:27:18.267 --> 01:27:20.994
Just he said that
sources were in danger,

1538
01:27:21.028 --> 01:27:22.685
that's simply not true.

1539
01:27:25.274 --> 01:27:28.346
- Thank you, as john said it's
only a 10 minute break now.

1540
01:27:28.381 --> 01:27:30.072
So it's gonna be short.

1541
01:27:30.106 --> 01:27:35.111
But what was presented here was an overwhelming evidence

1542
01:27:36.285 --> 01:27:38.598
of how politicized the
entire process has been.

1543
01:27:40.047 --> 01:27:43.913
As the channels are presented, very compelling evidence

1544
01:27:43.948 --> 01:27:47.296
of how it was decided under
Obama not to prosecute

1545
01:27:47.331 --> 01:27:50.092
because of the impossibility

1546
01:27:50.126 --> 01:27:52.819
of singling out one publisher,

1547
01:27:52.853 --> 01:27:54.993
WikiLeaks, one
journalist Julian Assange

1548
01:27:56.374 --> 01:27:59.481
and not going after all
those who were actually part

1549
01:27:59.515 --> 01:28:02.794
of that project the
New York Times problem

1550
01:28:02.829 --> 01:28:04.244
as as it was called.

1551
01:28:05.625 --> 01:28:09.698
It was laid out here how then
after Trump came to power,

1552
01:28:09.732 --> 01:28:13.460
every avenue was
sought to actually go
after Julian Assange.

1553
01:28:13.495 --> 01:28:16.670
That is apparent from

1554
01:28:16.705 --> 01:28:19.570
quote from Jeff Sessions,
the Attorney General,

1555
01:28:19.604 --> 01:28:22.193
from Mike Pompeo in 2017

1556
01:28:22.227 --> 01:28:25.334
when he started to
depicting Wikileaks

1557
01:28:25.369 --> 01:28:27.750
as a hostile
intelligence service,

1558
01:28:29.027 --> 01:28:31.444
and of course by this
amazing revelation

1559
01:28:32.479 --> 01:28:34.239
that congressman
Dana Rohrabacher

1560
01:28:34.274 --> 01:28:36.552
made an offer to Julian Assange

1561
01:28:36.587 --> 01:28:41.385
that if he would reveal his
source of the 2016 DNC leaks.

1562
01:28:43.318 --> 01:28:47.183
They would bring back the
message to Donald Trump

1563
01:28:47.218 --> 01:28:50.463
and secure leniency or pardon.

1564
01:28:50.497 --> 01:28:52.534
Of course that offer was denied.

1565
01:28:52.568 --> 01:28:54.018
There was no doubt about it.

1566
01:28:55.330 --> 01:28:58.263
That congressman Rohrabacher
and his colleague

1567
01:28:58.298 --> 01:29:02.682
at that meeting, were
saying that they were acting

1568
01:29:02.716 --> 01:29:05.823
under instruction
by full knowledge

1569
01:29:05.857 --> 01:29:08.757
of President Trump
in making that offer.

1570
01:29:10.206 --> 01:29:14.556
That is extraordinary only
when that offer was declined

1571
01:29:14.590 --> 01:29:18.111
the process of formulating
the indictments,

1572
01:29:18.145 --> 01:29:20.562
of getting the hands
on Julian Assange

1573
01:29:20.596 --> 01:29:24.013
started in full earnest and
we know how that all ended.

1574
01:29:25.221 --> 01:29:28.570
What was, of course,
astonishing to hear

1575
01:29:30.019 --> 01:29:32.850
that we will hear more
of his the revelation

1576
01:29:32.884 --> 01:29:37.061
that the security company the
private security company hired

1577
01:29:37.095 --> 01:29:39.512
to look after the
interests of Julian

1578
01:29:40.582 --> 01:29:42.894
was again hired rehired

1579
01:29:44.517 --> 01:29:47.002
by the funder of Donald Trump,

1580
01:29:48.348 --> 01:29:53.111
Las Vegas casino magnate
Sheldon Adelson to spy on Julian

1581
01:29:54.527 --> 01:29:56.045
and evidence will be produced

1582
01:29:56.080 --> 01:30:00.015
by whistleblowers from that
company who will anonymously

1583
01:30:00.049 --> 01:30:04.364
bear witness in this court,
how they spied on everything,

1584
01:30:04.399 --> 01:30:06.711
and tell you exactly who
they were working for,

1585
01:30:07.885 --> 01:30:09.818
it was US intelligence
it's the dark side.

1586
01:30:09.852 --> 01:30:12.855
They said internally
in between themselves.

1587
01:30:12.890 --> 01:30:15.513
They were spying on the
legally privileged conversation

1588
01:30:15.548 --> 01:30:17.653
between Julian and his lawyers.

1589
01:30:17.688 --> 01:30:21.761
And everything, almost in real
time, was transported back

1590
01:30:21.795 --> 01:30:23.728
to intelligence
agency in the US.

1591
01:30:25.523 --> 01:30:29.872
There was even discussions
among the staff in the embassy

1592
01:30:31.598 --> 01:30:35.222
that more extreme measures
would be possibly be taken.

1593
01:30:35.257 --> 01:30:39.019
Apart from this
spying on Julian,

1594
01:30:39.054 --> 01:30:42.437
namely kidnapping or poisoning.

1595
01:30:44.887 --> 01:30:47.338
[soft music]

1596
01:30:52.826 --> 01:30:55.380
- [Narrator] February 25th 2020.

1597
01:30:56.727 --> 01:30:59.454
[crowd shouting]

1598
01:31:01.456 --> 01:31:02.767
News breaks of the inhumane care

1599
01:31:02.802 --> 01:31:05.011
the founder of
Wikileaks is receiving.

1600
01:31:24.444 --> 01:31:27.620
February 26th 2020.

1601
01:31:27.654 --> 01:31:29.311
Sitting in a bulletproof box,

1602
01:31:29.345 --> 01:31:32.487
unable to be properly
engaged in the proceedings.

1603
01:31:32.521 --> 01:31:34.247
Assange's lawyer
revealed to the court

1604
01:31:34.281 --> 01:31:36.387
that he is now on medication,

1605
01:31:36.421 --> 01:31:39.183
fueling further rumors
of his weakening health.

1606
01:31:40.115 --> 01:31:42.876
[crowd chanting]

1607
01:31:56.821 --> 01:31:59.755
February 27th 2020.

1608
01:31:59.790 --> 01:32:02.240
[soft music]

1609
01:32:14.011 --> 01:32:16.841
- [Craig] The main
stream media came here

1610
01:32:16.876 --> 01:32:19.775
for the opening statement
of the prosecution.

1611
01:32:19.810 --> 01:32:23.123
Yeah, they copy and paste
it from the prosecution

1612
01:32:23.158 --> 01:32:25.194
thing saying Mr. Assange
is a common criminal

1613
01:32:25.229 --> 01:32:28.370
and then they all went homeeven before the defense started.

1614
01:32:28.404 --> 01:32:31.304
So I'm afraid that,

1615
01:32:31.338 --> 01:32:32.754
but that simply tells us

1616
01:32:32.788 --> 01:32:34.169
what we already knew about
the main stream media.

1617
01:32:34.203 --> 01:32:35.308
Anyway, thank you.

1618
01:32:40.865 --> 01:32:43.385
- It's not a fair hearing,
it's not a fair hearing.

1619
01:32:43.419 --> 01:32:45.629
If one side is more
armed than the other.

1620
01:32:45.663 --> 01:32:48.839
If one side can go back and forth with their lawyers

1621
01:32:48.873 --> 01:32:51.255
and discuss the route
that they need to take

1622
01:32:51.289 --> 01:32:54.603
or point out the things might be factually incorrect.

1623
01:32:54.638 --> 01:32:56.812
It will have an
equally chilling effect

1624
01:32:56.847 --> 01:32:58.780
on both whistleblowers
and publishers.

1625
01:32:58.814 --> 01:33:00.540
Because it sets
the precedent that,

1626
01:33:00.575 --> 01:33:02.473
it doesn't matter where
you are reporting from,

1627
01:33:02.507 --> 01:33:05.925
it doesn't matter who
gives you the documents,

1628
01:33:05.959 --> 01:33:07.512
none of that matters.

1629
01:33:07.547 --> 01:33:10.964
If you do something that
another state doesn't like,

1630
01:33:10.999 --> 01:33:13.208
they can reach out that
extra territorial arm

1631
01:33:13.242 --> 01:33:14.554
and pluck you from that country

1632
01:33:14.589 --> 01:33:16.452
and throw you into
a hole in theirs.

1633
01:33:16.487 --> 01:33:19.663
So in this case, we
have an Australian

1634
01:33:19.697 --> 01:33:22.389
publisher in Europe
and the United Kingdom

1635
01:33:22.424 --> 01:33:25.254
being sought by
the United States.

1636
01:33:25.289 --> 01:33:30.294
Where he is looking down the
barrel of 175 years in prison.

1637
01:33:31.502 --> 01:33:32.883
They've already stated
that they'll keep him

1638
01:33:32.917 --> 01:33:36.403
under what they call SAM's
Special Administrative Measures.

1639
01:33:36.438 --> 01:33:39.061
We understand how the United
States government works

1640
01:33:39.096 --> 01:33:41.685
with their terminology,
they talk about.

1641
01:33:41.719 --> 01:33:44.619
Enhanced interrogation
techniques,

1642
01:33:44.653 --> 01:33:47.829
which is a synonym for torture.

1643
01:33:47.863 --> 01:33:52.523
SAM's is a synonym for solitary
confinement in isolation.

1644
01:33:52.557 --> 01:33:55.043
He wouldn't be allowed
to speak to his family.

1645
01:33:55.077 --> 01:33:56.769
He'd only be allowed
to speak to his lawyer

1646
01:33:56.803 --> 01:33:59.495
and his lawyer wouldn't be
allowed to convey anything

1647
01:33:59.530 --> 01:34:00.945
that he said to the public

1648
01:34:00.980 --> 01:34:04.777
without his lawyer themselves
being thrown into prison.

1649
01:34:08.608 --> 01:34:11.646
- John Shipton, Julian Assange's his father here,

1650
01:34:11.680 --> 01:34:14.303
outside Belmarsh
with the supporters.

1651
01:34:15.822 --> 01:34:17.168
This is the fourth day.

1652
01:34:18.342 --> 01:34:21.794
The story continues
to unfold as some sort

1653
01:34:21.828 --> 01:34:23.623
of fraud upon the court,

1654
01:34:23.658 --> 01:34:28.317
by the Department of Justice
in the United States,

1655
01:34:28.352 --> 01:34:31.976
because they have, all of
their evidence has been proved

1656
01:34:32.011 --> 01:34:34.669
to be, as our barrister says,

1657
01:34:34.703 --> 01:34:38.224
lies, lies and more
lies, the extraordinary.

1658
01:34:40.847 --> 01:34:44.506
This abrogation of
Julian's human rights

1659
01:34:44.540 --> 01:34:49.131
started 10 years ago, with
10 days arbitrary detention

1660
01:34:49.166 --> 01:34:51.893
in Wandsworth
prison in solitary.

1661
01:34:51.927 --> 01:34:56.621
Then after that 18 months
house arrest in Norridge,

1662
01:34:56.656 --> 01:35:00.211
after that Julian
had to seek asylum

1663
01:35:00.246 --> 01:35:03.525
and was given asylum in
the Ecuadorian embassy.

1664
01:35:03.559 --> 01:35:06.666
And that was seven and a half
years of arbitrary detention.

1665
01:35:06.701 --> 01:35:08.254
- Can you hear me?

1666
01:35:08.288 --> 01:35:09.738
- [Crowd] Yeah.

1667
01:35:09.773 --> 01:35:13.638
- [John] Now, after the
United Kingdom contravened

1668
01:35:13.673 --> 01:35:17.746
its own conventions
to arrest Julian

1669
01:35:17.781 --> 01:35:22.751
without the revocation of the
asylum that has given him.

1670
01:35:24.132 --> 01:35:26.341
They arrested him and charged
him with skipping bail,

1671
01:35:26.375 --> 01:35:29.689
and has been in Belmarsh
maximum security prison

1672
01:35:29.724 --> 01:35:32.036
for about 10 months now.

1673
01:35:32.071 --> 01:35:36.247
So 10 years of
arbitrary detention,
you don't have to take

1674
01:35:36.282 --> 01:35:39.009
my word for there's
a Working Group,

1675
01:35:39.043 --> 01:35:42.495
the United Nations Working
Group on Arbitrary Detention,

1676
01:35:42.529 --> 01:35:45.947
their determination,
there's this secondary

1677
01:35:45.981 --> 01:35:49.502
they're reporting
in February 2018,

1678
01:35:49.536 --> 01:35:52.125
from the Working Group
on arbitrary detention.

1679
01:35:52.160 --> 01:35:56.509
There's Nils Melzer of the
UN rapporteur on torture.

1680
01:35:56.543 --> 01:35:58.235
His conclusions that Julian

1681
01:35:58.269 --> 01:36:00.755
had been psychologically
tortured,

1682
01:36:00.789 --> 01:36:02.446
deliberately smeared,

1683
01:36:03.965 --> 01:36:05.380
mobbed.

1684
01:36:05.414 --> 01:36:09.625
There's also the United
Nations rapporteur on privacy,

1685
01:36:09.660 --> 01:36:13.319
his determination
that Julian's privacy

1686
01:36:13.353 --> 01:36:15.079
had been stolen from him.

1687
01:36:15.114 --> 01:36:18.565
There's the illegal
surveillance by UC global

1688
01:36:18.600 --> 01:36:20.188
on behalf of the CIA,

1689
01:36:21.396 --> 01:36:24.295
the list just goes on and on.

1690
01:36:24.330 --> 01:36:27.160
You know, I just take
each day as it comes

1691
01:36:27.195 --> 01:36:29.300
and do what I can to
ensure that Julian

1692
01:36:29.335 --> 01:36:32.510
comes home to his
family, that's all.

1693
01:36:36.376 --> 01:36:37.792
- [Narrator] Court
proceedings are adjourned

1694
01:36:37.826 --> 01:36:40.691
with three weeks of evidence
scheduled on May 18th.

1695
01:36:42.900 --> 01:36:44.868
- [Crowd] Free Julian Assange.

1696
01:36:44.902 --> 01:36:46.386
Free Julian Assange.

1697
01:36:46.421 --> 01:36:48.078
Free Julian Assange.

1698
01:36:50.149 --> 01:36:51.978
Free Julian Assange.

1699
01:36:52.013 --> 01:36:54.429
[soft music]

1700
01:37:26.564 --> 01:37:28.428
- [Narator] Julian Assange
the enemy of America

1701
01:37:28.463 --> 01:37:32.156
for nearly 15 years
lies in Belmarsh prison

1702
01:37:32.191 --> 01:37:33.778
awaiting his fate.

1703
01:37:33.813 --> 01:37:35.988
Fate that will have
grave implications

1704
01:37:36.022 --> 01:37:38.162
across the media driven world,

1705
01:37:38.197 --> 01:37:40.302
from whistleblowers
to journalists.

1706
01:37:41.752 --> 01:37:44.859
Fate that will change the way
stories can be investigated.

1707
01:37:46.515 --> 01:37:50.174
Fate that will be decided
in the months to come.

1708
01:37:51.555 --> 01:37:54.834
From coder to convict, Assange
has brought information

1709
01:37:54.869 --> 01:37:56.698
and injustices to
light that would

1710
01:37:56.732 --> 01:37:59.114
otherwise be stored
and forgotten.

1711
01:37:59.149 --> 01:38:01.772
Whether you support
or shun his methods.

1712
01:38:01.806 --> 01:38:04.982
Undoubtedly his revolutionary
publishing has changed

1713
01:38:05.017 --> 01:38:07.536
the way journalism is conducted.

1714
01:38:07.571 --> 01:38:09.745
Holding governments
that act in our name

1715
01:38:09.780 --> 01:38:11.782
to a definitive account.

1716
01:38:11.816 --> 01:38:12.956
With ailing health

1717
01:38:12.990 --> 01:38:15.751
and the Coronavirus
pandemic in full swing.

1718
01:38:15.786 --> 01:38:17.753
Doctors expressed
fear that Assange

1719
01:38:17.788 --> 01:38:20.895
may not see the
light of day, again.

1720
01:38:25.175 --> 01:38:26.901
- I think it's important
to remember at this time,

1721
01:38:26.935 --> 01:38:28.937
that as we go back
out into the world,

1722
01:38:28.972 --> 01:38:31.112
we leave these happy headlands,

1723
01:38:31.146 --> 01:38:34.425
this this open face setting
with all these happy hills.

1724
01:38:34.460 --> 01:38:36.048
We remember that the
world of tomorrow,

1725
01:38:36.082 --> 01:38:37.670
is not gonna be like the past.

1726
01:38:39.051 --> 01:38:41.536
And the networks we move into
are going to be threatened

1727
01:38:41.570 --> 01:38:44.470
by the KGB, the
CIA, Sears, Roebuck

1728
01:38:45.333 --> 01:38:48.508
and any number of strange,

1729
01:38:48.543 --> 01:38:53.548
ostensibly honest, suspicious
entities whose very nature

1730
01:38:54.963 --> 01:38:56.482
and motivations must be
very carefully scrutinized.

1731
01:38:56.516 --> 01:39:00.348
So it's upto the entire
public to defend itself

1732
01:39:00.382 --> 01:39:03.454
to look to the extension
of freedom of privacy,

1733
01:39:03.489 --> 01:39:06.561
freedom of information,
freedom of association

1734
01:39:06.595 --> 01:39:08.597
and all the things that
have made America great

1735
01:39:08.632 --> 01:39:11.911
in this strange new
and dark network world.

1736
01:39:11.946 --> 01:39:14.327
[soft music]