Civil rights attorney Michael Ratner, defender of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Guantánamo Bay detainees, died Wednesday in New York at the age of 72. The Columbia Law School graduate practiced in the spirit of William Kunstler, who represented Martin Luther King Jr, the Chicago 7, Black Panthers, and Weather Underground, and founded the legal advocacy … Continue reading Michael Ratner, Wikileaks lawyer & civil liberties legend, dies at age 72