Julian Assange to be made honorary citizen of Rome
Julian Assange to be made honorary citizen of Rome
Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will become an honorary citizen of Rome by early next year following a vote this week by its local assembly, the city's former mayor Virginia Raggi said on Thursday.
cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/1242124
Assange, 52, has been in London's high-security Belmarsh prison since 2019 and is wanted in the United States over the release of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables in 2010.
"Assange is a symbol of free speech which is essential for any genuine democracy," Raggi, who ran Rome's city hall between 2016 and 2021, told Reuters.
"He has been deprived of his own liberty for years, in awful conditions, for doing his job as a journalist," she said.
Other Italian cities have taken similar steps. The northern city of Reggio Emilia granted Assange citizenship last month, while Naples is set to follow shortly.
In the beginning he was a whistle blower. In the end he was a Russian marionette. They used him (like Snowden) to leak US documents. His first interview on cameras was for russia today and given the chance to drop damaging information on the Republican Party, he always choosed to drop the dirt of the democratic party. He got played by the FSB hard and is still in denial about this. He is either a bad faith actor or a useful idiot for russias desinformation campaign.
Assange isn’t a whistle blower. He was a journalist who published information given to him by whistleblowers (like Manning).
Who used Snowden to leak documents?
He's an information and data terrorist. He has everyone's secrets but only releases the ones that are convenient to him or his handlers. There's nothing noble about him.
What are you talking. his website released even data of the embassy he was granted asylum for few years. They then kicked him out.
You are talking shit my man.
He's just a narcissist.
When the DNC and RNC got hacked, the info came out for both. But what the DNC did pissed off the highly politically engaged - democrats who voted in the primary.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ROME, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will become an honorary citizen of Rome by early next year following a vote this week by its local assembly, the city's former mayor Virginia Raggi said on Thursday.
Assange, 52, has been in London's high-security Belmarsh prison since 2019 and is wanted in the United States over the release of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables in 2010.
The motion to make him a citizen of the Eternal City was spearheaded by Raggi, from the left-leaning Five Star Movement, and won cross-party support.
"Assange is a symbol of free speech which is essential for any genuine democracy," Raggi, who ran Rome's city hall between 2016 and 2021, told Reuters.
The motion was approved on Tuesday, kick-starting a process that Raggi said she hoped could be completed by Christmas but may take slightly longer.
The northern city of Reggio Emilia granted Assange citizenship last month, while Naples is set to follow shortly.
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“He has been deprived of his own liberty for years, in awful conditions, for doing his job as a journalist,” she said.
I wonder if he could have simply not raped two women in Sweden?
EDIT: I can't believe being anti-rapist is a controversial opinion now. Good job, Lemmy community. I hope you feel nice and warm when you go to sleep tonight after simping for a rapist's right to not stand trial for rape.
Are these the charges that where dropped? Is one not innocent untill PROVEN guilty. Of cause its a catch 22 u go and extradite him to have the case then he ends up in the US awfully convenient that. Also gotta point out how convenient it is that anyome who fucks with the alpabet bois gets accused of such crimes.
Are these the charges that where dropped?
The prosecution announced that the investigation had been closed as of 19 November 2019 because "the evidence has weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed". It said the complainant had "submitted a credible and reliable version of events"
Is one not innocent untill PROVEN guilty.
Yes, and that is generally why people are tried in court instead of hiding in another nation's embassy to avoid arrest.
Of cause its a catch 22 u go and extradite him to have the case then he ends up in the US awfully convenient that.
Yes, because Sweden was just drooling over the prospect of extraditing him to the US, and totally doesn't have policies against extradition for the US crimes Assange was accused of /s
Also gotta point out how convenient it is that anyome who fucks with the alpabet bois gets accused of such crimes.
"Believe all women, except when women accuse someone I like"
Really eye-opening how popular this view is on here.
If you read about this matter, you would know very well that the matter is way more complex than "he did not want to stand trial". The whole matter is very well described by Stefania Maurizi (a journalist who cooperated with Wikileaks) in her book "Secret power". Both the Swedish and the UK government have huge responsibilities on how (bad) that case was handled.
That’s not a good look when the fascist country makes you a citizen.
Its not the country, its the City of Rome.
The Mayor of Rome and majority of the City Council is social-democrat