Publisher and journalist, Julian Assange, has been nominated for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. The letter written by Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli, outlining the motivation for Assange’s nomination is a testament to Assange’s work for truth and transparency. People don’t really understand what has been done to Julian Assange, because he has been treated as an enemy by government agencies, when all he has done is tell the truth. Assange exposed government secrecy at the highest level. Can we honestly say the public doesn’t have a right to know or a need to know what their government has been doing in their name, using their money? Assange wanted the truth out about what powerful nations do to people without power who are victims of governments exercising that power, and then covering it up. Publishing the truth allows those governments to reform themselves, but instead they have been using the democratic process to deceive the people and criminalize journalism. Human rights are under threat all over the world. Our actions in support of the public’s right to know and in support of Assange can change the course of human rights globally. Assange’s detainment has been an attempt to silence all journalists for publishing evidence of war crimes, human rights abuses, human rights crimes, and crimes against humanity. For Peace in this world, we need more journalists to stand up and publish the truth, to bring it all out into the Light, in order to keep governments in check.
Here is Professor Ferrada deNoli’s letter.
