Irish Examiner view: ​Ireland should speak out for Julian Assange 

Over two years ago, we said that to deliver up Assange would be a disaster for investigative journalism, for free speech, and a fillip for repressive regimes — we haven’t changed our mind
Irish Examiner view: ​Ireland should speak out for Julian Assange 

The Government has been depressingly silent over Julian Assange while it is happy to make plenty of other proclamations.

People may not care much about what happens to Julian Assange. Until recently he had been a long time out of the headlines.

Yet last week’s key hearings in the High Court in London remind us that it is not relevant whether we like, or approve, of someone at the centre of a legal action. It is important that they are treated with justice.

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