NEVER before have so many states, intelligence agencies and powerful individuals invested such effort into confining, silencing and neutralising a single individual on account of his desire to inform people about the misdeeds of their governments and elites.

Such is the case with Julian Assange and this book — an anthology of essays, articles and commentaries written by journalists, lawyers and supporters, edited by Tariq Ali and Margaret Kunstler— lays bare Assange’s enduring persecution, his countless successes in exposing those deemed untouchable through the medium of Wikileaks and the terrifying implications that an extradition to the US would pose not just to Assange but to journalism and democracy as a whole.

The book focuses on Assange’s confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy, his expulsion and arrest, the internet and censorship and the legacy of Assange and Wikileaks.