{"id":402094,"date":"2019-03-31T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-year-of-silencing-julian-assange-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-03-31T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:00:11","slug":"a-year-of-silencing-julian-assange-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-year-of-silencing-julian-assange-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year of Silencing Julian Assange \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On this date in 2018, the Wikileaks publisher was cut off from the work of journalism, reports Elizabeth Vos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By Elizabeth Vos<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter<\/span><\/a> Wednesday: \u201c\u2026 March 28, marks one year that WikiLeaks<\/em> publisher Julian Assange has been illegally gagged from doing journalism\u2014any writing that expresses a \u2018political opinion\u2019? even on his own treatment, after pressure from the U.S. on Ecuador.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On this date in 2018 Moreno imposed on Assange what Human Rights Watch\u2019s legal counsel Dinah Pokempner described<\/a><\/span> as looking \u201cmore and more like solitary confinement.\u201d Moreno cut off Assange\u2019s online access and restricted visitors to the Ecuador embassy in London where Assange has had legal political asylum since 2012.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreno cited Assange\u2019s critical social media remarks about Ecuador\u2019s allies, the U.S. and Spain. Assange\u2019s near-total isolation, with the exception of visits from legal counsel during week days, has been augmented by the Ecuadorian government\u2019s imposition of a complex \u201cprotocol<\/a>,\u201d<\/span> which, although eased slightly in recent months in respect of visits allowed, has not improved Assange\u2019s overall status over the last 12 months. In some respects, it seems to have worsened.<\/span><\/p>\n

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