There is new reporting that in 2017 the CIA was planning to kidnap or kill him and even if that isn't the plan anymore he will likely face a lifetime in prison (up to 170 years) just for publishing thruthful information.

So the main message is easy, people can be two things, they can be a journalist/aktivist who needs protection from governments that want to harm him and by extension attack all investigative journalists or whistleblowers while at the same beeing a sexist creep, like a many other men. Who should all be delt with accordingly.

Even one of the two women who accused Assange of misconduct Anna Ardin is saying "Ich will nicht, dass er an die US-Justiz ausgeliefert wird" ("I don't want him to be extradited to the US").

Most media outlets especially in the US and Europe that extensively covered the alligations against Assange seem to be very quiet about the current trial to extradite him to the US, his threatment in the UK prison and especially about the revelations that the CIA considered plans to kidnap him from an embassy or even kill him.

The UK trial expected for tomorrow (27.10.), so there is currently a lot on stake.

Let's make sure people pay attention!

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Summary Wikileaks/Julian Assange:

2006: WikiLeaks was established and has since been publishing sensitive information that others want to hide, exposing government secrets and war crimes. I will only highlight some of the leaks and mostly focus on the US threatment of Assange who is or was a key member.

2010 (April): WikiLeaks released "Collateral Murder", a video showing US soldiers shooting 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq including Reuters journalists

2010 (November), US: US Investigation into Wikileaks is anounced

2010 (November), SWEDEN: The Swedish police issued an international arrest warrant against Julian Assange because of sexual assult alligations from two women. Julian Assange is in London for a conference at that time.

Assange asks for a non-extradition-agreement from Sweden which is denied.

2010 (December), UK: Assange is arrested in London and a trial is held to extradited him to Sweden. At a second hearing he gets out on Bail.

2016, US: During the US Democratic Party presidential primaries, WikiLeaks hosted a searchable database of emails sent or received by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State.

2016 (July), US: WikiLeaks released emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in which the DNC seemingly presented ways of undercutting Clinton's competitor Bernie Sanders and showed apparent favouritism towards Clinton.

Under the Obama Administration, the Department of Justice did not indict Assange because it was unable to find any evidence that his actions differed from those of a journalist. However, after President Donald Trump took office, CIA director Mike Pompeo and Attorney General Jeff Sessions stepped up pursuit of Assange.

2017 (March), US: WikiLeaks began releasing the largest leak of CIA documents in history, codenamed Vault 7. The documents included details of the CIA's hacking capabilities and software tools used to break into smartphones, computers and other Internet-connected devices

According to former intelligence officials, in the wake of the Vault 7 leaks, the CIA plotted to kidnap Assange from Ecuador's London embassy, and some senior officials discussed his potential assassination.

2018 (February), SWEDEN: Sweden suspended its investigation

2018 (March), US: A US jury issued a sealed indictment against Assange

2018 (December): The UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urged the UK to let Assange leave the embassy freely

2019 (April), UK: The Ecuadorian government invited the Metropolitan Police into the embassy, and they arrested Assange on the basis of a US extradition warrant. He was later sentenced to 50 weeks imprisonment for breaching bail.

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said that the verdict contravened "principles of necessity and proportionality" for what it considered a "minor violation"

2019 (April), US: The day of Assange's arrest in London, the US indictment against him was unsealed.

2019 (May): The United Nations special rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Nils Melzer, concluded that "in addition to physical ailments, Mr Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma."

2019 (May), US: Assange was indicted on 17 new charges relating to the Espionage Act of 1917 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia a town that mainly consists of intelligence personal. These charges carried a maximum sentence of 170 years in prison.