‘I chose freedom over justice’: Julian Assange in first address since prison release

Australian Community Media

Julian Assange spoke for the first time since his release from prison in an address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in France.

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00:00I eventually chose freedom over unrealizable justice after being detained for years and

00:06facing a 175-year sentence with no effective remedy. Justice, for me, is now precluded

00:16as the US government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at

00:24the European Court of Human Rights or even a Freedom of Information Act request over what

00:29it did to me as a result of its expedition request. I am not free today because the system

00:35worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.

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