The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
April 17, 2019

Internet Activists Call for Release of Swedish Programmer Ola Bini
------------------------------------------------------------------

Digital freedom advocates are calling for the release of Swedish
programmer and data privacy activist Ola Bini, who has been detained in
Ecuador since last Thursday. His arrest came hours after Wiki Leaks
founder Julian Assange was dragged by British police from the Ecuadorean
Embassy in London. Bini is accused of hacking government computers.
Prosecutors in Ecuador said they plan to charge Bini with plotting to
blackmail Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno. Critics say Bini is being
targeted because of his close relationship with Wiki Leaks and Julian
Assange. This is his lawyer, Carlos Soria.

Carlos Soria: "What Ola Bini does is encrypt information so that, as a
matter of fact, hackers, as you like to call them, do not have access to
information and cannot steal it. He does exactly the opposite of what he
is being accused of."



.