{"id":30879,"date":"2021-02-08T21:02:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=a79e8b4b49b91c7ea02cbd241b15855c"},"modified":"2021-02-08T21:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:02:16","slug":"us-rsf-joins-press-freedom-coalition-calling-on-bidens-department-of-justice-to-drop-case-against-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/08\/us-rsf-joins-press-freedom-coalition-calling-on-bidens-department-of-justice-to-drop-case-against-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"US: RSF joins press freedom coalition calling on Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice to drop case against Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined a coalition of two dozen press freedom, civil liberties, and international human rights organizations in urging the Biden Department of Justice to stop pursuing an appeal against the extradition decision and drop the charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The full text of the letter is below.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>U.S. Department of Justice<\/p>\n<p>950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC 20530-0001<\/p>\n<br \/>\n<p>February 8, 2021<\/p>\n<br \/>\n<p>Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson:<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/us-rsf-joins-press-freedom-coalition-calling-bidens-department-justice-drop-case-against-julian\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined a coalition of two dozen press freedom, civil liberties, and international human rights organizations in urging the Biden Department of Justice to stop pursuing an appeal against the extradition decision a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30879"}],"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\/1349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31570,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30879\/revisions\/31570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}