Press Conference With Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s Wife on 13 December the European Parliament in Strasbourg
The 5 Star delegation's press conference “The Julian Assange case: Publishing is not a crime” took place on Tuesday December 13, from 17h00 to 17h30 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Daphne Caruana Galizia room.
Julian Assange is a finalist for the Sakharov Prize 2022, the European Union's highest award in the field of human rights and freedom of thought. The WikiLeaks publisher partnered with world-leading newspapers to publish documents that evidenced war crimes, arbitrary detention, torture and judicial interference leaked by US private Chelsea Manning. Julian Assange remains imprisoned in the UK's notorious Belmarsh high security prison while he fights United States extradition and a sentence of 175 years in prison. It was recently reported that he has lodged an application before the European Court of Human Rights.
Joint press conference by:
Tiziana Beghin, head of the 5 Star delegation in the EP
Sabrina Pignedoli, 5 Star MEP, promotor of Assange’s candidature at the Sakharov Prize.
Virginie Lemarié, Julian Assange’s lawyer
Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife
Moderated by Davide D'Antoni, 5 Star press officer
The conference was held in EN - IT with FR and ES live interpretation.
