The Russian senator congratulated the Australian journalist and freedom of speech fighter on his 50th birthday.
Julian Assange, the creator of the WikiLeaks portal, was born on July 3, 1971. Through the activities of the Australian journalist and the platform he created, the world learned about a number of secret documents concerning, in particular, the war crimes of the United States army in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Against the background of the publication of this data, Assange was prosecuted. The US Department of Justice has brought a number of charges against the journalist, on the aggregate of which he could face up to 175 years in prison. Assange is now in the British maximum security prison Belmarsh.
“Assange is probably the last idealist of the Western world: he believes that with the help of truth, war can be prevented. But the information has mutated today. Misinformation is passed off as it. It is perverted for political purposes, blocked by “post-truth” and a gigantic industry of fakes. Therefore, even if in the USA, say, the truth comes out, it most often does not change anything. What Edward Snowden had the opportunity to be convinced of. Putting himself on the altar of truth, he saw that absolutely nothing had changed in the United States. But Assange’s convictions command great respect. I sincerely congratulate him on his 50th birthday!”, – wrote the well-known publicist Alexey Pushkov on his tg-channel.