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| ====== The "Assange Precedent" ====== | ====== The "Assange Precedent" ====== |
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| If the US succeeds in prosecuting the publisher and editor of WikiLeaks, for revealing information the US says is “secret”, it will open the flood gates to an extremely dangerous precedent. Not only will the US government immediately seize on the precedent to initiate further prosecutions, states the world over will follow suit and claim that their secrecy laws must apply globally too. Assange’s co-publishers at The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and Espresso among others, will also risk immediate prosecution in -and extradition to- the US. The prosecution of Assange will have a profound and chilling effect on the press and national security reporting. Publishers should not be prosecuted, in the US or elsewhere, for the “crime” of publishing truthful information. | If the US succeeds in prosecuting the publisher and editor of WikiLeaks, for revealing information the US says is “secret”, it will open the flood gates to an extremely dangerous precedent. Not only will the US government immediately seize on the precedent to initiate further prosecutions, states the world over will follow suit and claim that their secrecy laws must apply globally too. Assange’s co-publishers at The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and Espresso among others, will also risk immediate prosecution in -and extradition to- the US. The prosecution of Assange will have a profound and chilling effect on the press and national security reporting. Publishers should not be prosecuted, in the US or elsewhere, for the “crime” of publishing truthful information. |