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Media gather round Rebecca Vincent from Reporters without Borders as she talks outside Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, after Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was formally issued with an order for extradition to the US to face espionage charges, in April 2022
CAMPAIGNERS, politicians and academics condemned today Home Secretary Priti Patel’s decision to extradite journalist Julian Assange to the US as a “dark day for press freedom and British democracy.”
The WikiLeaks founder has 14 days to appeal Ms Patel’s decision to send him to the US where he is facing charges for exposing the country’s war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr Assange has been held in Belmarsh prison in London for nearly three years after he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in the capital.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
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