{"id":31722,"date":"2018-08-30T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=31722"},"modified":"2018-08-30T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:24:19","slug":"the-torture-of-assange-a-blight-on-the-us-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/the-torture-of-assange-a-blight-on-the-us-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torture of Assange: A Blight on the US&nbsp;Justice&nbsp;System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been forced to spend nearly 3,000 days in solitary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. His crime? He isn&#8217;t charged with anything. But the neocons and warmongers in the US government want to put him in a box \u2013 or worse \u2013 for publishing government secrets. Wait&#8230;isn&#8217;t that what all journalists do? Yes, that is what they are supposed to do. So isn&#8217;t the persecution of Assange actually an attack on the free press? Yes. What can we do to help Assange? Our ideas in today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZybBAfB66rM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been forced to spend nearly 3,000 days in solitary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. His crime? He isn&#8217;t charged with anything. But the neocons and warmongers in the US government want to put him in a box \u2013 or worse \u2013 for publishing government secrets. Wait&#8230;isn&#8217;t that what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31724,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722\/revisions\/31724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31722"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}