CPJ (@pressfreedom) is deeply concerned about Assange's extradition but not enough to defy US government's decade-plus campaign to redefine Assange as someone who is not a journalist—which officials have done to justify the criminalization of his journalistic work.
https://twitter.com/pressfreedom/status/1473419857169469446
CPJ may dislike pushback they're receiving for excluding Julian Assange from annual journalists index. That's why they posted this thread on December 21. But CPJ is increasingly an outlier.
The European Federation of Journalists recognizes Assange as a jailed journalist.
The European Federation of Journalists recognizes Assange as a jailed journalist.
For more background, including their inadequate response to my question about why Assange remains excluded from CPJ's jailed journalists index: thedissenter.org/cpj-still-excl…
What does it mean when a press freedom organization waffles on whether or not a journalist is a journalist, even though they do not debate whether that person engaged in journalistic activities? #Assange
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