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May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been confined for 10 years. It’s time, on this important day, to bring Julian home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#BringJulianHome<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been confined for 10 years. It’s time, on this important day, to bring Julian home. #BringJulianHome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":9498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[253,470],"tags":[484,471],"class_list":["post-9495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-current-affairs","tag-press-freedom","tag-wikileaks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wpd2a.jpg?fit=280%2C163&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9209,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/british-judge-rejects-assange-extradition\/","url_meta":{"origin":9495,"position":0},"title":"British judge rejects Assange extradition","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Surprisingly, this morning a British judge rejected the US request for extradition of Julian Assange. 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