“There’s no democracy without freedom of the press because the press is the only thing that can hold government accountable,” Cohen said.
Assange, 52, is currently being held at Belmarsh Prison, a high-security facility in southeast London, as he awaits extradition to the United States where he is wanted for alleged violations of the Espionage Act.
“It’s outrageous. Julian Assange is nonviolent. He is presumed innocent. And yet somehow or other, he has been imprisoned in solitary confinement for four years. That is torture,” Cohen said at the protest. “He revealed the truth, and for that, he is suffering and we need to do whatever we can to help him.”
The WikiLeaks founder has been indicted on 18 criminal counts after the site published thousands of pages of classified documents related to the Iraq war and Guantanamo Bay between 2010 and 2011.Cohen was arrested for blocking an entrance into the Department of Justice building.Cohen and CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans were protesting the US prosecution of Julian Assange.Many journalists have denounced the prosecution of Assange as an attack on the press.
Cohen — who is known for his activism and has made headlines before for his liberal views — went to DC seemingly expecting to be arrested. “If you’re trying to [fight] an issue of injustice, you can scream and yell, you can write but the ultimate thing you can do is get arrested for it — to disobey the unjust law,” Cohen told a reporter as he sat in the pathway to the DOJ building entrance. “So that’s what I’m doing and I feel good about it.”Cohen said he was released from police custody after about three hours.Cohen later said that he and Evans were released from police custody after being held for about three hours in a tweet.
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