Politicians Celebrate “World Press Freedom Day” As Julian Assange Languishes In Prison
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day, sponsored annually by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
UNESCO holds the event, it avows, to celebrate “the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession.”
Those claims are hollow and duplicitous, as the nge remains locked up in a high-security prison in London and faces the threat of rendition to the US. Why?