Like William Penn and John Peter Zenger, the Wikileaks founder is fighting for our freedom.
When the magistrate presiding last September at Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, Vanessa Baraitser, confined the defendant to a bullet-proof glass cage at the back of the court, she had precedent on her side. All who entered her courtroom at London’s Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, had to pass a plaque memorializing a case against another defender of free speech and thought. The finely wrought marble plaque reads:
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If Assange’s Fate Were Up To a Jury, He, Too, Might Have Walked Free
Charles Glass | The Nation | 21st December 2020
Like William Penn and John Peter Zenger, the Wikileaks founder is fighting for our freedom.
When the magistrate presiding last September at Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, Vanessa Baraitser, confined the defendant to a bullet-proof glass cage at the back of the court, she had precedent on her side. All who entered her courtroom at London’s Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, had to pass a plaque memorializing a case against another defender of free speech and thought. The finely wrought marble plaque reads: