{"id":276131,"date":"2024-10-14T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=276131"},"modified":"2024-10-04T04:32:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T03:32:48","slug":"pace-hearing-on-julian-assanges-detention-and-conviction-and-their-chilling-effects-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/pace-hearing-on-julian-assanges-detention-and-conviction-and-their-chilling-effects-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"PACE Hearing on Julian Assange&#8217;s Detention and Conviction and Their Chilling Effects on Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"info-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-info-text\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string bold\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>Streamed live on 1 Oct 2024<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Julian Assange, accompanied by his wife Stella, took part in a parliamentary hearing on his detention and conviction&#8211;and their chilling effect on human rights&#8211;today ahead of a full plenary debate on this topic by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">In his first public remarks since his release from detention at Belmarsh Prison in the UK four months ago, Mr Assange told parliamentarians: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">&#8220;I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration, I pleaded guilty to journalism. I pleaded guilty to seeking information from a source, and I pleaded guilty to informing the public what that information was.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PACE hearing on Julian Assange&#039;s detention and conviction and their chilling effects on human rights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mq85IZMeigc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streamed live on 1 Oct 2024 &#8211; &#8220;I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration, I pleaded guilty to journalism. I pleaded guilty to seeking information from a source, and I pleaded guilty to informing the public what that information was.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[229,918,2732,2709,910,1451,942,487,378,651,234,911,454,572,639,292,70,126,921,113],"class_list":["post-276131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-activism","tag-assange","tag-belmarsh-prison","tag-belmarsh-tribunal","tag-big-brother","tag-chelsea-manning","tag-ecuador","tag-human-rights","tag-journalism","tag-justice","tag-media","tag-surveillance","tag-sweden","tag-torture","tag-uk","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-whistleblowing","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276139,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276131\/revisions\/276139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}