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‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

party-sicko

some petty bullshit making him plead guilty to espionage but shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

America, after spending an insane level of resources and decades of man power to make someone say a phrase: HA! GOT EM!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Everybody will know that this is a forced confession anyways so who cares?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It does set a potentially dangerous precedent, but with how things are going (American newspapers declining in quality and SCOTUS selectively ignoring precedent and doing whatever), you're right that it doesn't mean much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That’s what’s so concerning about the case. The USA tried to persecute an Australian citizen working out of the EU for publishing information.

As he is not a US citizen he was not able to use the X amendment to free speech.