Opinion: The Assange prosecution is a threat to journalists around the world
A supporter of Julian Assange holds a poster of the WikiLeaks founder during a protest in London on May 2. By Joel Simon May 24 at 2:50 PM Joel Simon is executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists and author of “We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom.”
But in fact, what the U.S. government is asserting through its prosecution of Assange is far more sweeping and far more dangerous. Assange is not an American. He’s Australian. The criminal acts Assange allegedly committed all occurred outside the United States. Thus the United States is asserting extraterritorial jurisdiction in a publishing case, a practice usually reserved for terrorism or piracy. Under this rubric, anyone anywhere in the world who publishes information that the U.S.
Under the legal theory advanced by the the Justice Department in the Assange case, American journalists, including correspondents around the world, could be vulnerable to similar prosecutions. Before such a notion is dismissed as a hypothetical threat, consider that at least one country, Iran, has repeatedly jailed American journalists for alleged espionage, among them The Post’s own Jason Rezaian, who spent 544 days in prison on such spurious charges.
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