2023-09-19 11:04:33
He Buenos Aires Press Union (Sipreba) and the Freedom movement Assange Argentina rToday they reiterated the request for the release of Julián Assange when screening the film «The war against journalism», a meeting that included the participation of the journalist and writer of ArgenLeaks, Santiago O’Donnell.
The projection of documentary film, directed by Juan Pasarelli, is part of the film series to ask for the release of the journalist currently imprisoned in the United Kingdom and could be extradited to the United States, where He would be sentenced to 175 years in prison for the dissemination of documents on US military and diplomatic activities, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The film shows part of the documents leaked by Assange, and his defense and various interviewees argued that if he were convicted, a precedent would be generated for “persecuting journalists.”
“Assange’s arrest affects our right to information, which has been incorporated with constitutional status since the ’94 Constitution,” said O’Donnell. during the day held at the Argentine Federation of Press Workers (Fatpren), in the city of Buenos Aires.
The journalist and writer, who interviewed Assange on different occasions, stated that sHis conviction would mean that “the US government will be able to decide whether or not one can speak.”
«All the laws that defend journalists are old, They should be enlarged and address the entire public. “Not only journalism should be protected, but the right to freedom of expression”he remarked.
O’Donnell called the information leaks “the last refuge of journalism” and questioned – citing the PanamaPapers case – why some journalists “are given a prize” and why others “are put in prison.”
«The United States government wants all tax havens to be disseminated except its own, like Delaware. There is a very important geological element,” he highlighted.
In dialogue with Télam, O’Donnell defined the leak as “obtaining information that someone wants to hide from you.”
“It is a tool for access to information, which at this moment is fundamental for the survival of democracy,” he stressed.
The meeting, which was moderated by journalist Javier «The Profe» Romerowas attended by the president of Sipreba, Agustín Lecchi; the former auditor of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) Cristina Caamaño; the leader of the CTA, Leonor Cruz, and members of the “Malón de la Paz”who have been in Plaza Lavalle since August 1 in protest of “the anti-constitutional reform” proposed by Jujuy governor Gerardo Morales.
According to the United States Department of Justice, Assange helped an analyst named Chelsea Manning (who in 2013 was sentenced to 35 years in prison and pardoned four years later by former President Barak Obama) to crack a password needed to enter Defense Department computers connected to a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications.
US authorities argue that the actions of Assange and Manning compromised the security of the United States and endangered the lives of its soldiers, agents and collaborators.s.
Instead, Both Assange and his portal, WikiLeaks, insist that this is a case of freedom of expression and that the leak, Ultimately, it helped expose war crimes.
Assange founded the WikiLeaks platform in 2006, that anonymously publishes sensitive documents of public interest.
As of 2010, the platform published more than 700,000 confidential documents on US military and diplomatic activities, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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