(THREAD) An international #journalist statement in defense of Julian #Assange was launched publicly today There are already 120 signatories from 47 countries speak-up-for-assange.org #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange 
All #journalist and people in #journalism-related roles can sign the international statement #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange in defense of Julian #Assange The charges against him critically affect our work and we don't want to be silent at this time.
If #Assange can be extradited and imprisoned for publishing important leaked documents, so too could many other #publishers and #journalists risk the same fate Please sign #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange speak-up-for-assange.org
#PentagonPapers leaker @DanielEllsberg has signed the journalist statement in defense of #Assange he fits the category of a journalism-related role and signed as "journalist source" Join him #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange speak-up-for-assange.org
.@UNHumanRights #SRTorture @NilsMelzer said in June 2019 “it finally dawned on me that I had been blinded by propaganda, and that #Assange had been systematically slandered to divert attention from the crimes he exposed.” SIGN #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
.@NilsMelzer “Once he had been dehumanized through isolation, ridicule and shame.... it was easy to deprive him of his most fundamental rights without provoking public outrage worldwide.” Sign here in 8 languages speak-up-for-assange.org
