Lula expresses ‘solidarity’ with WikiLeaks
Looks like WikiLeaks finally has a world leader interested in defending it, as Agence France-Presse reports: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday expressed “solidarity” with jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, criticising the Australian activist’s arrest as a blow against “freedom of expression.” At a public event in the Brazilian capital, Lula blasted ...
Looks like WikiLeaks finally has a world leader interested in defending it, as Agence France-Presse reports:
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday expressed “solidarity” with jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, criticising the Australian activist’s arrest as a blow against “freedom of expression.”
At a public event in the Brazilian capital, Lula blasted Assange’s arrest and expressed “solidarity with exposing documents” which WikiLeaks has claimed as its mandate.
Assange has “exposed a diplomacy that had appeared unreachable,” said Lula, who criticised of a failure of other governments to challenge Assange’s detention.
“They have arrested him and I don’t hear so much as a single protest for freedom of expression,” he said.
(H/T Glenn Greenwald)
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