Whether you love or hate Julian Assange, the United States’ prosecution of the Wikileaks publisher under the Espionage Act for printing government secrets in 2010 poses an extreme risk to press freedom.
Join us on February 15, 2024 at 12:30pm ET for a virtual panel discussion explaining how the Assange prosecution threatens all journalists.
And don’t miss the world premiere of a Freedom of the Press Foundation video urging the Biden administration to drop this dangerous prosecution.
Speakers:
Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Carrie DeCell, Senior Staff Attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute
Trevor Timm, Executive Director of Freedom of the Press Foundation
Ben Wizner, Director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project