Julian Assange is an Australian journalist and activist, known to many for having founded the popular organization WikiLeaks. It is an international organization that anonymously receives secret documents belonging to the state, military, banking and others and which are then published.
Why Julian Assange is in prison
For almost four years, precisely since April 2019, Julian Assange has been in prison in the United Kingdom, at Her Majesty's Belmarsh prison, awaiting extradition to the USA, on charges of conspiracy and espionage. His detention, which also appears to take place in very severe conditions, has sparked protests from human rights organizations.
Today, Tuesday 31 January 2023, the City Council of Naples will have an important task, namely that of voting on an agenda, with the first signatory on director Sergio D'Angelo. This is the request for the provision of the honorary citizenship to Julian Assange.
Activists from freeassangenapoli I'm on his side, stating that the journalist is "the victim of real political persecution". Therefore, for their part, the award of honorary citizenship to Assange will be:
A further demonstration of the shrewd civilization of Naples in defending with Assange, more generally, the freedom of information, attacked not only in the so-called dictatorships, but also in many nations that boast of being democratic, such as the United States, the United United Kingdom or Italy itself, unfortunately dropped to 58th place in the annual ranking concerning freedom of the press
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