The Assange Story (2020)

The fate of Julian Assange will soon be decided as he prepares to fight for his freedom in a landmark extradition hearing in London The US wants to get its hands on the WikiLeaks founder in what the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture called the collective persecution by a group of democratic states If convicted Assange could face decades in a US jail In April 2019 Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy and sent to Belmarsh Prison for breaching his bail terms Through WikiLeaks Julian Assange published a trove of classified documents on the powerful elite including war crimes committed by the military on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and embarrassing details from politicians emails The Assange Story pieces together accounts from Assanges friends family and former colleagues to build up a clearer understanding of the personality and motivation in the man behind whats been called the biggest leaks in intelligence history