Support Assange & WikiLeaks Coalition will be hosting an opportunity for the media to hear first hand the concerns Doctors for Assange have for Julian Assange’s health and well being. This event will be MCed by Wendy Bacon, former Professor of Journalism and Director of Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at University of Technology Sydney; […]
During a recent visit to Australia, Jennifer Robinson, legal adviser to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sat down with MEAA to explain the implications for all journalists of the US government indictment against Assange, and why it is important for MEAA members to campaign against his extradition on press freedom grounds.
At the International Federation of Journalists’ 30th World Congress in Tunis, affiliated unions unanimously supported MEAA’s resolutions condemning the AFP raids on the home of a News Corporation journalist and the offices of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and urged the British and Australian governments to resist the extradition of WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange to the […]
MEAA has renewed calls for the Australian and United Kingdom governments to oppose moves to extradite WikiLeaks founder and publisher to the United States to face trial on 18 espionage charges.
On Thursday April 11, 2019 WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange was arrested by police in London. MEAA has written to the British and Australian governments urging them to oppose the extradition to the United States of Wikileaks’ founder and publisher Julian Assange.
