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US: Free speech no excuse for crimes of WikiLeaks' Assange

by Associated Press
| February 24, 2020 6:05 AM

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not a free-speech champion but an ordinary criminal whose publication of secret documents put many people at risk of torture and death, a lawyer for the U.S. government said Monday as Assange's extradition hearing opened in a London court.

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