{"id":5114,"date":"2021-01-04T19:09:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/jan\/04\/julian-assange-verdict-does-little-protect-press-freedom"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:09:40","slug":"julian-assange-verdict-does-little-to-protect-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/04\/julian-assange-verdict-does-little-to-protect-press-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange verdict does little to protect press freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: ruling appears to extend the scope of British Official Secrets Act on classified information <\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/jan\/04\/julian-assange-to-seek-release-from-prison-after-extradition-ruling\">Julian Assange to seek release from prison after extradition ruling<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Julian Assange may have won the first round of his extradition battle against the US but lawyers and the National Union of Journalists have warned his victory had little to do with the protection of journalism and free speech.<\/p><p>A study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/USA-v-Assange-judgment-040121.pdf\">of the ruling<\/a> from the district judge Vanessa Baraitser \u2013 which said the WikiLeaks founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/jan\/04\/julian-assange-to-seek-release-from-prison-after-extradition-ruling\">should not be extradited<\/a> on mental health grounds \u2013 appears to extend the scope of the British Official Secrets Act, which governs the leaking and handling of classified government information.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/jan\/04\/julian-assange-extradition-fate-remains-unclear\">Julian Assange extradition ruling: what happens now?<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/jan\/04\/julian-assange-verdict-does-little-protect-press-freedom\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/jan\/04\/julian-assange-verdict-does-little-protect-press-freedom\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: ruling appears to extend the scope of British Official Secrets Act on classified information Julian Assange to seek release from prison after extradition rulingJulian Assange may have won the first round of his extradition battle against the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1312,1311,6,117,640,94,1313,1314,1315,205,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114"}],"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\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}