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Trump and Assange
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A request by the US to extradite Julian Assange, essentially for exposing its role in the Iraq war, was turned down by a judge.
Not because it would be a fundamental attack on journalistic freedom but because incarceration in a US prison might further worsen Assange’s health, which has already been damaged by the British state keeping him locked up in Belmarsh.
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