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‘It will become lethally dangerous to handle, let alone publish, documents from US government sources.’ Protesters in Rome urge the UK not to extradite Julian Assange. Photograph: Simona Granati/Corbis/Getty Images

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In the course of the next few days, Priti Patel will make the most important ruling on free speech made by any home secretary in recent memory. She must resolve whether to comply with a US request to extradite Julian Assange on espionage charges.

The consequences for Assange will be profound. Once in the US he will almost certainly be sent to a maximum-security prison for the rest of his life. He will die in jail.

The impact on British journalism will also be profound. It will become lethally dangerous to handle, let alone publish, documents from US government sources. Reporters who do so, and their editors, will risk the same fate as Assange and become subject to extradition followed by lifelong incarceration.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Peut-on encore penser librement dans le plus prestigieux journal américain ? Bari Weiss, 36 ans, journaliste à la rubrique «Opinion» du New York Times, vient d’en claquer la porte en dénonçant le «harcèlement» dont elle aurait été victime. En cause ? Ses idées jugées dérangeantes par une partie de la rédaction du média ouvertement progressiste et anti-Trump. Elle déplore avoir été ostracisée pour avoir tenté d’élargir le spectre idéologique du journal à des points de vue conservateurs, mission pour laquelle elle avait précisément été embauchée trois ans auparavant. Weiss, qui a longtemps travaillé au Wall Street Journal, avait été recrutée dans le quotidien new-yorkais juste après l’élection de Donald Trump, alors que sa direction entamait une profonde autocritique pour ne pas avoir su anticiper la victoire du milliardaire.…  Seguir leyendo »

Alejandro Hernández Pacheco, a cameraman, was abducted and tortured by drug traffickers. He was granted asylum in the United States in 2011. Credit Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The New York Times

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On June 20, 2011, in Veracruz, Mexico, Miguel Ángel López Solana arrived home to find that his brother, mother and father had been murdered. Both sons were photojournalists at the newspaper where their father was a columnist, writing about crime and political corruption. Within a month, another journalist at the paper was decapitated. A year later, four more journalists were murdered there in a single week. It’s not clear why they were killed, but Mr. López wasn’t going to wait around to find out.

“I just ran away, I ran away, I ran as far as I could, to where I could get lost in the black of night,” Mr.…  Seguir leyendo »

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By Geoffrey R. Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago, is the author of "Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism." (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/05/06):

WHILE tensions between the federal government and the press are as old as the Republic itself, presidential administrations have never been inclined to criminally prosecute the news media for publishing information they would rather keep secret. In recent weeks, however, the Bush administration and its advocates, including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, have spoken of prosecuting The Washington Post and The New York Times for publishing Pulitzer Prize-winning exposés of the administration's secret prisons in Eastern Europe and secret National Security Agency surveillance of Americans.…  Seguir leyendo »