- The US military has today projected videos of attacks on Iraqi civilians in the British Parliament, in response to Julian Assange’s extradition request to the United States. The images are from 2007, and they've been filtered through the WikiLeaks website.
In addition to Parliament, the images have also been projected into Belmarsh prison, where Assange is imprisoned, according to the same sources. The video was released in 2010 by WikiLeaks. There, U.S. military personnel appear shooting at a group of civilians in Baghdad, two of whom were employed by the Reuters agency.
Besides the videos, slogans such as Assange's photo or "journalism is not a crime" were also projected on the facades of the two buildings.
The Australian entrepreneur created the website WIkiLeaks.org in 2006. Fleeing from the United States, he was detained for seven years at the London Embassy in Ecuador. The man was arrested in last year’s sentence, accused of sexually raping and assaulting a woman on the street in which she lived. The United States has called for extradition.
Through this Thursday’s action, they want to stress that Assange is a journalist and has done his job, so the information is not a crime.