{UAH} On Australian TV, Julian Assange’s father calls for son’s freedom

Socialist Equality Party (Britain)

11 mins · 

John Shipton warned that the US was "determined to ruin" Assange's life, because of WikiLeaks' exposures of war crimes, mass surveillance operations, and illegal diplomatic intrigues.

"They want to demonstrate that publishers and whistleblowers will be destroyed," he said, adding that he feared Assange would be "dragooned to the United States and thrown into a jail cell, never to get out."

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On Australian TV, Julian Assange's father calls for son's freedom

John Shipton warned that his son's persecution was "to demonstrate that publishers and whistleblowers will be destroyed."

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