Скачать или смотреть Rome protesters rally outside U.S. embassy as Assange starts final UK legal battle to avoid extradit

(20 Feb 2024)
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Rome, Italy - 20 February 2024
1. Demonstrator sitting on the sidewalk dressed in an orange suit and wearing a face-mask as Julian Assange, protesters holding banner reading (Italian) “We want Julian Assange to be freed”
2. Close of Julian Assange mask worn by demonstrator
3. Doves freed by protesters ++Upsound of demonstrators shouting (English) “Freedom!”
4. Close of demonstrator holding sign reading (English) “Free Assange now”
5. Demonstrators in line holding letter signs reading (English) “Free Assange”, British Embassy building in the background
6. Close of sign reading (English) “Stop the extradition”
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Claudia Nastrucci, “Free Assange Italia” demonstrator:
“We really hope that between today and tomorrow we could finally put an end to the condemnation and the torture of this man who just brought us information and journalism, and journalism cannot be a crime.”
8. Close of demonstrators wearing a facemask as Assange and holding banner reading (English) “Journalism is not a crime”
9. Demonstrators holding banner reading (Italian) “Journalism is not a crime, free Assange”
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Ilham Menin, demonstrator:
“Today we are asking for Julian Assange not to be extradited to the United States, and most of all that he will return a free man, until now he hasn’t had a fair trial but he has been in prison waiting for a trial, they are asking for a sentence of 175 years (in prison) and he has been in prison for 14 years now, there is no such case in the world, we must raise our voice about it, more and more.”
11. Banner reading (English) “No extradition - Free Assange”
12. Close of British monarchy coat of arms on top of the gate of the British embassy
13. Pan of British embassy
STORYLINE:
Dozens of demonstrators gathered in front of the British embassy in Rome on Tuesday in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose lawyers have opened a final U.K. legal challenge to stop him from being sent to the United States to face spying charges.

The 52-year-old has been fighting extradition for more than a decade, including seven years in self-exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and the last five years in a high-security prison.

“We really hope that between today and tomorrow we could finally put an end to the condemnation and the torture of this man who just brought us information and journalism, and journalism cannot be a crime,” said Claudia Nastrucci of “Free Assange Italia.

Assange, an Australian computer expert, has been indicted in the U.S. on 18 charges over Wikileaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents in 2010.

Prosecutors say he conspired with U.S. army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to hack into a Pentagon computer and release secret diplomatic cables and military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He faces 17 counts of espionage and one charge of computer misuse.

If convicted, his lawyers say he could receive a prison term of up to 175 years, though American authorities have said any sentence is likely to be much lower.

AP video by Luigi Navarra

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