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   Nithin Coca నితిన్ (ncoca@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 20:36:21 JST Nithin Coca నితిన్

   There are probably at least 50 journalists - nearly all journalists of color working in the global south - that I would rank as more deserving of being freed than #Assange.

   For example,

   - Huang Xueqin, a #Chinese feminist who covered #MeToo

   - #Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj

   - #Vietnamese pro-democracy reporter Pham Doan Trang

   - Saudi journalist Nazeer Al-Majed.

   Why don't their cases get as much attention?

   #China #India #SaudiArabia #Vietnam #PressFreedom #Journalism

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 07:08:27 JST Sean Bala

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     @ncoca My two cents is that it was the strangeness of his imprisonment within the Ecuadorian embassy and the ambiguity of what was going to happen to him once arrested. And the fact that is was all playing out in a major western capital. There is also his persona that is ideosyncratic to put it mildly.

     I never have seen him as a journalist or a hero (be circumspect of anyone who tells you how brave they are repeatedly) but it was the strangeness of the case that made it stick out.