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March 2023 Issue [Letter from Washington]

Alternative Facts

by Andrew Cockburn,
How the media failed Julian Assange
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Alternative Facts

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How the media failed Julian Assange
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Every year on the first of December, the Committee to Protect
Journalists publishes its global prison census, documenting the
number of journalists behind bars around the world. The 2022 edition
set a grim record: 363 jailed journalists. Scanning the
list--organized alphabetically by first name--and scrolling down to the
J's, we see that Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro, publisher of the
Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, has been locked up since 2021 on
charges of money laundering, part of the Ortega dictatorship's
crackdown on independent media. Next is Juret Haji, the director of
the Xinjiang Daily, detained since 2018 after a colleague...

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