{"id":1249320,"date":"2023-10-06T05:59:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T05:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=296335"},"modified":"2023-10-06T05:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T05:59:03","slug":"past-time-to-end-the-persecution-of-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/06\/past-time-to-end-the-persecution-of-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s long past time for the U.S. and U.K. to free Julian Assange. His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is quite upset about it. Indeed, on September 19 at the United Nations, heads of state denounced this phony prosecution for the fraud and subterfuge it is \u2013 an assault on  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/06\/past-time-to-end-the-persecution-of-julian-assange\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/06\/past-time-to-end-the-persecution-of-julian-assange\/\">Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/06\/past-time-to-end-the-persecution-of-julian-assange\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s long past time for the U.S. and U.K. to free Julian Assange. His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is quite upset about it. Indeed, on September 19 at the United Nations, heads of state denounced this phony prosecu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266,14,204],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258704,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249320\/revisions\/1258704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}