On April 11, 2020, a panel of experts will mark the one-year anniversary of the arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in a webinar hosted by the Courage Foundation.



Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, former president of the National Lawyers Guild Marjorie Cohn, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges will convene to discuss the unprecedented charges against Assange and the threat they pose to the First Amendment and investigative journalism around the world. Aaron Maté, writer for The Nation and host of Pushback, will moderate the discussion.



Panelists will comment on the treatment Assange has endured in his year of detention at HMP Belmarsh in London, which the UN Rapporteur on Torture has described as “psychological torture.” Panelists will also address the threat of the coronavirus spreading through British prisons and the district judge’s decision to deny Assange bail amid this pandemic.

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The Courage Foundation is an international whistleblower support network that campaigns for the protection of truthtellers and the public’s right to know. For ongoing updates, resources, and more information on Assange’s case, visit defend.wikileaks.org Julian Assange, an Australian citizen working in the UK, is fighting extradition to the United States, where he faces 18 espionage charges for the publication of Iraq and Afghan war documents and State Department cables in 2010. If convicted, Assange would face up to 175 years in prison. Press freedom groups, top newsrooms, human rights organizations, and leading US & UK politicians have condemned the Trump Administration’s charges against Assange, the first-ever counts of espionage against a journalist for publishing truthful information in the public interest.The Courage Foundation is an international whistleblower support network that campaigns for the protection of truthtellers and the public’s right to know. For ongoing updates, resources, and more information on Assange’s case, visit