(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 20 - To ask for the release of Julian Assange, absurdly detained for having had the courage to denounce war crimes and very serious violations of human rights, and thus restore role and value to truly free and independent information.
This is the goal of the international campaign "My voice for Assange" promoted by a committee - formed by Paolo Benvenuti, Daniele Costantini, Flavia Donati, Giuseppe Gaudino, Laura Morante, Armando Spataro, Grazia Tuzi, Vincenzo Vita - which welcomed the appeal launched by the Nobel Peace Prize, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
The initiative was presented to the National Federation of the Italian Press, during which some videos recorded by Nobel Laureates, personalities from the world of culture,
information and entertainment that have joined this campaign to affirm that - as the campaign slogan says - "transparency is an indispensable condition of academia".
Among the interventions that of the director of Avvenire, Marco Tarquinio, who remarked "the growing disappointment that comes from the Anglo-Saxon democracies that are sending ambiguous and worrying signals".
Gianni Barbacetto affirmed that "Assange is not a spy but a journalist, because he does not know the secrets of the nations, but their crimes. We must overcome this blackmail".
In agreement the president of the Order of Journalists, Carlo Bartoli, who underlined "the bitterness due to the absence of a large part of the Italian information system on a story that instead interests people".
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Assange - added Stefania Maurizi - will not be saved by the law, but by the mobilization of public opinion ". According to the spokesman of Amnesty International Italia, Riccardo Noury," from the point of view of the violation of human rights it is not a controversial story but crystalline: 'it's a fair trial and there are no well-founded allegations.
No extradition, yes to imprisonment ". For Alberto Negri, finally," our press should be ashamed, because complicity and silence kill journalism. "The campaign is supported by Fnsi, Anac, Article 21, Aamod and will be followed by Avvenire , the Manifesto and the Daily Facts. (ANSA).
from the point of view of the violation of human rights it is not a controversial but crystalline story: there is no fair trial and there are no well-founded accusations.
No extradition, yes to imprisonment ". For Alberto Negri, finally," our press should be ashamed, because complicity and silence kill journalism. "The campaign is supported by Fnsi, Anac, Article 21, Aamod and will be followed by Avvenire , the Manifesto and the Daily Facts. (ANSA).
from the point of view of the violation of human rights it is not a controversial but crystalline story: there is no fair trial and there are no well-founded accusations.
No extradition, yes to imprisonment ". For Alberto Negri, finally," our press should be ashamed, because complicity and silence kill journalism. "The campaign is supported by Fnsi, Anac, Article 21, Aamod and will be followed by Avvenire , the Manifesto and the Daily Facts. (ANSA).
Aamod and will be followed by Avvenire, il Manifesto and ilFatto Quotidiano.
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Aamod and will be followed by Avvenire, il Manifesto and ilFatto Quotidiano.
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