Loading ...Brazil’s Lula Blasts “Embarrassment” Of Assange Incarceration To UK Press
“The press, which defends freedom of the press, does nothing to free this citizen. It’s sad, but it’s true.”
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva has called for freedom for Julian Assange and denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free the journalist.
“It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one state against another is arrested, condemned to die in jail and we do nothing to free him. It’s a crazy thing,” Lula told reporters. “We talk about freedom of expression; the guy is in prison because he denounced wrongdoing. And the press doesn’t do anything in defense of this journalist. I can’t understand it.”