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Assange, 250 for his father’s testimony in Montano Lucino Como province

Chronicle / Como Belt Monday 03 July 2023

World Detained in the UK since 2012, awaiting extradition to the US: In 2011 he published documents on the US conduct of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on the WikiLeaks website. Recently the screening of the documentary film “Ithaka” took place in Montano.

Martina Toppi

52 candles were blown out today, July 3, by Julian Assange, an Australian journalist jailed in the UK on a request for extradition to the US for disseminating sensitive documents about US warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq has. Over the past year, the Como region has been actively involved in the story revolving around the reporter, who was convicted twice: for the first time on December 10, the UN-established World Human Rights Day, during a demonstration by activists Como and beyond they support his release; Most recently, on June 23, Montano Lucino hosted the screening of the documentary Ithaca, inspired by the Assange family’s difficult efforts to free him.

Story

Assange is the founder of the WikiLeaks website and his story has been told almost everywhere: it was 2010 when WikiLeaks released these confidential documents about Afghanistan, and in 2019 Assange was imprisoned in the maximum security prison in Belmarsh in the United Kingdom after being held in the maximum security prison in Belmarsh in the United Kingdom since the summer of 2012 in the Ecuadorian one Embassy in London barricaded and protected by political refugee status after Sweden issued an extradition request over a controversial sex abuse complaint. The then-president of Ecuador accepted Assange’s request for asylum, acknowledging the journalist’s concerns that he feared extradition to Sweden would put him at risk of extradition to the United States.

However, Sweden’s allegations were only dismissed in 2017 when Russiagate, the judicial investigation launched into alleged Russian interference in the campaign for the 2016 presidential election in the United States of America, broke out, with American intelligence as an accomplice to the Kremlin. In 2019, however, Assange lost asylum received in Ecuador and was expelled from the embassy, ​​only to be arrested by British authorities for breaching his bail obligations.

As recently as May 2019, Assange was indicted by the United States on 18 counts (with a sentence of 10 years if guilty per count) for distributing hundreds of confidential documents related to the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Afghanistan-Iraq. The website, founded by Assange, published documents denouncing the killing of civilians and various atrocities and torture by US forces. Finally, in 2020, the process of extradition to the United States begins.

To provide Montano the documentary about the odyssey of Julian’s father in order to achieve the release of the film

Following the screening of Ben Lawrence’s documentary “Ithaka” in Montano Lucino, Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, intervened via video call to offer viewers – some 250 people attended the event at the Teatro Smeraldo – a testament to the ongoing struggle Assange’s family and his in particular Father have been campaigning for the journalist’s release since 2012.

“John was very moved when the video call started and everyone stood up to applaud him,” says Lorena Corrias, Italy’s Ithaca dissemination officer and activist for the liberation of Assange from the very beginning – I think he is has now been exploited, stressed how important it is for him and the whole family that public opinion continues to speak out about this case.” “Ithaka” has only been screened three times in Italy: the first time in Rome, the second time on Sunday 18. June, at the BiograFilm Festival in Bologna; finally the third second in Montano Lucino. “But there will certainly be other screenings in the Como area,” Corrias continues, “most likely in Como this fall as well.”

The film was presented to Montano Lucino by Franco Cavalleri and Lorena Corrias from the group “Como_for_Assange”, which you can join by writing to 328/7680405 or to the addresses [email protected] And [email protected]

A full hall at the Teatro Smeraldo in Montano Lucino for the screening of the documentary

A full hall at the Teatro Smeraldo in Montano Lucino for the screening of the documentary “Ithaka” and the testimony of Assange’s father via video call

A cartoon by Australian journalist Julian Assange at the Teatro Smeraldo in Montano Lucino for the evening dedicated to his father's testimony

A cartoon by Australian journalist Julian Assange at the Teatro Smeraldo in Montano Lucino for the evening dedicated to his father’s testimony

His wife’s meeting with Pope Francis

Recently, Pope Francis met Julian Assange’s wife and their two children at the Vatican. The #FreeAssange movement, which has activists in many parts of the world, accompanied the Australian journalist’s wife’s visit to the Pope with numerous flash mobs. However, even today Assange will blow out the candles in the UK prison awaiting the response to the appeals against the extradition request to the United States.

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