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If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now.

Falls es je unklar gewesen sein sollte, ob der Fall Julian Assange nur ein Rechtsfall oder aber der Kampf um den Schutz von grundlegenden Menschenrechten gewesen ist, dann ist das spätestens jetzt klar geworden.

(via telesur)

Die Unterzeichner sind:

• Pamela Anderson, actress and activist

• Jacob Appelbaum, freelance journalist

• Renata Avila, International Human Rights Lawyer

• Sally Burch, British/Ecuadorian journalist

• Alicia Castro, Argentina’s ambassador to the United Kingdom 2012-16

• Naomi Colvin, Courage Foundation

• Noam Chomsky, linguist, and political theorist

• Brian Eno, musician

• Joseph Farrell, WikiLeaks Ambassador and board member of The Centre for Investigative Journalism

• Teresa Forcades, Benedictine nun, Montserrat Monastery

• Chris Hedges, journalist

• Srećko Horvat, philosopher, Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25)

• Jean Michel Jarre, musician

• John Kiriakou, former CIA counterterrorism officer, and former senior investigator, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Lauri Love, computer scientist, and activist

• Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, Presidential advisor

• John Pilger, journalist, and film-maker

• Angela Richter, theater director, Germany

• Saskia Sassen, sociologist, Columbia University

• Oliver Stone, film-maker

• Vaughan Smith, English journalist

• Yanis Varoufakis, economist, former Greek finance minister

• Natalia Viana, investigative journalist and co-director of Agencia Publica, Brazil

• Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer, and activist

• Slavoj Zizek, philosopher, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities