Julian Assange: The Invisible Defendant

Anyone who passed through the British High Court in London in the past two days could not miss the case that was being heard there. Demonstrators had been stationed there since early Tuesday, demanding the release of the founder of the whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks with loud chants of “Free Julian Assange” and drumming. There were speeches, for example from the former British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Assange’s supporters had been mobilizing for this day for weeks – because inside the courthouse, Assange’s case might be heard for the last time in a British court. And so the face of Assange, who became world famous with the publication of US secret documents on his platform WikiLeaks in 2010, was present everywhere in front of the courthouse: on T-shirts, posters, masks and paintings.

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