Thread by @SMaurizi

1. the UK authorities' cruel and illegal treatment of the @wikileaks founder, Julian #Assange, is truly unbelievable. They won't release Julian #Assange from the Belmarsh high-security prison, no matter he faces a HUGE risk of getting #COVID19

2. in the last decade,this cruel treatment by the UK authorities has been possible ONLY thanks to the British media, which have failed to rein in the worst instincts of their government,quite the opposite they have assisted their government in destroying Julian #Assange

3.even the Russian journalists behaved more courageously than the British journalists: when #IvanGolunov was arrested, they sided with their colleague and embarrassed the Russian authorities. It worked: #IvanGolunov was released

4. if you want a fact that exemplifies the failure of the UK journalists,I can provide an obvious one: it took an ITALIAN journalist to fight a #FOIA litigation in #London to access the docs on #Assange.NO UK journalist had ever tried to confront the UK authorities on this case

5. the #Assange case provides evidence that when it comes to the highest levels of Power (the level where diplomacies and secret services operate) you CANNOT trust most Western media, as you CANNOT trust the media operating in regimes. With few noble exceptions, of course