There is no free speech in Europe, Irish MEP Mick Wallace tweeted on April 3.
The parliamentarian quoted EU High Representative Josep Borrell who, commenting on the arrest of Evan Gershkovich, a correspondent for the Moscow bureau of the US daily The Wall Street Journal in Yekaterinburg, on suspicion of espionage, said that journalists should freely exercise their activities. and are entitled to protection.
“So Borrell is going to call for the release of journalist Julian Assange, who is in a British prison for exposing US and NATO war crimes…?” – asks the parliamentarian.
Let’s remember that Julian Assange faces 175 years in prison in the United States. There he is accused of divulging classified information. He is being held in a UK prison. Assange’s defense tries to appeal to the ECtHR the decision to extradite him to the United States.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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