I would like to point out that the “Collateral Murder” video would not have been published without #Wikileaks.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/manning-washington-post-new-york-times

Journalists were already so frightened before the Assange case that they didn’t risk publishing the war crime.

To illustrate the inhumanity of the system, the following anecdote should be mentioned: The secret service stole Assange’s shaving kit from the Equadorian embassy so that he would look bearded when he was arrested. They did this to downgrade his credibility in public by making him look so scruffy.

The rule of #law is not guaranteed in the #West if those in #power agree to break it.

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