Press freedom is at risk if we allow Julian Assange's extradition | Roy Greenslade

The aim of the charges is to halt whistleblowers and stop journalists giving them a platform Later this month, a journalist will appear at a London court hearing in which he faces being extradited to the United States to spend the rest of his life in prison. The 18 charges against him are the direct result of his having revealed a host of secrets, many of them related to the US prosecution of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They included the "collateral murder" video which showed a US helicopter c...