Opinion

If Assange is sent to the US, it will endanger journalists everywhere

By Tony Nagy, Greg Barns
Updated September 11 2020 - 8:01pm, first published September 10 2020 - 4:30am
Supporters of Julian Assange gather at the exit to Old Bailey as a van believed to be carrying the Wikileaks founder leaves his extradition hearing. Picture: Getty Images
Supporters of Julian Assange gather at the exit to Old Bailey as a van believed to be carrying the Wikileaks founder leaves his extradition hearing. Picture: Getty Images

Some say journalism is the first draft of history. But history is a cruel mistress, a weighing machine that judges our behaviour across the ethics and principles of time, not the daily cut and thrust of the news cycle.

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