Nelson de Sá: NYT, Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País call for an end to action against Assange

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On the 12th anniversary of the beginning of the publication of the so-called “cabogate”, a series of reports with documents from the US State Department obtained by WikiLeaks, the American newspaper The New York Times, the English The Guardian, the French Le Monde, the magazine The German Der Spiegel and the Spanish El País published this Monday (28) an open letter with the statement “Publishing is not a crime”:

They claim that “the time has come to drop the charges against Julian Assange”, the Australian editor of WikiLeaks who has been imprisoned since 2019 in London, at the request of Washington. Write the editors and publishers at the end of the text, published with small local adaptations:

“In a democracy, one of the fundamental missions of an independent press is to hold governments to account. Obtaining and disseminating classified information is an essential part of journalists’ day-to-day work. If that work is declared criminal, not only the quality of public debate, but also our democracies will be significantly weakened. Twelve years after the first publications related to ‘cabogate’, the time has come for the US government to drop the charges against Julian Assange for publishing secret information. Publishing is not a crime.”

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