Today marks 2 years since Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He’s being held in a maximum security jail because the US wants to extradite him for publishing evidence of war crimes. This is an attack against journalists and press freedoms everywhere.

The same day a judge swiftly found Assange guilty of absconding bail, despite the fact he had been given political asylum by Ecuador, and sent him to Belmarsh aka Britain's Guantanamo Bay, typically reserved for Al Qaeda members, terrorists and other notorious criminals.

The judge gave him the maximum sentence of 50 weeks, which have long passed, yet Assange is still at Belmarsh, despite not being convicted of a crime nor serving a sentence. The same week of his arrest the US unsalted an indictment against him, requesting his extradition from UK.

It charges Assange- an Australian citizen outside the United States- under the Espionage act + 1 count of computer hacking. He potentially faces 175 years in jail. The indictment is a political witch-hunt that criminalizes journalism and seeks to make an example out of him.

Despite the judge ruling against extradition solely on health grounds (while agreeing with all the political charges), Assange is still in Belmarsh and is denied his family, visitors and even his winter clothes and heating. Even Al Qaeda figures have received better treatment.

It's astounding to me that a journalist who exposes war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan is sitting in jail while the monsters who started these wars like Tony Blair and George Bush are walking free. This is the "justice system" of the West. This is how much the press is valued.

I covered his entire extradition hearing which you can find here. It is truly scandalous. The UK and US are not democracies and the media have done a fantastic job keeping this out of headlines in order to cover up the gross injustices being committed. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu2VSMZ0QRWKIU4ofQt3pAfFMCbJgvLFb