Stella Assange says attempts to extradite her husband, jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, to the US to face espionage charges over the publication of secret military and diplomatic files are a criminalisation of journalism and the truth. "They want impunity, they don't want to be scrutinised and journalism stands in the way," she tells supporters outside the UK court where Assange's lawyers are making a last-ditch bid to fight the extradition.
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00:00 What they're trying to argue is that state secrets trump revealing state crimes.
00:08 This is the balance they're trying to shift.
00:10 They want impunity, they don't want to be scrutinized, and journalism stands in the way.
00:18 And in that courtroom, they're having to make their position increasingly clear.
00:24 They have to admit that what they're doing is criminalizing journalism, is criminalizing the truth.
00:35 They are liars, they are criminals, and they are persecuting the journalists who expose them.
00:51 Julian is a truth teller, he is a political prisoner.
00:58 And the world is watching these courts and how they deal with this case.
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