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On June 25, 2024, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was able to walk free followi
ng a deal with the US government. Does this surprising end to the publisherrCOs
many years of criminal prosecution and imprisonment signal a positive outcome fo
r press freedom?

Turkish journalist Can D|+ndar, who was also imprisoned on similar charges in Tu
rkey and now lives in exile in Germany, followed the Assange case for the last s
ix months before his release. D|+ndar sees it as the most important trial for pr
ess freedom in this century. In this documentary, D|+ndar decides not to focus o
n the controversial figure of Assange, but instead on his most controversial pub
lication: rCLCollateral MurderrCY, a video which shows possible war crimes commi
tted by US soldiers in 2007 in an attack in Baghdad during the Iraq war. The rec
ording shows journalists and Iraqi civilians being gunned down by US soldiers in
an Apache helicopter.

D|+ndarrCOs investigations take him from Iceland to the US and Iraq, as he follo
ws the story of the infamous video. He tracks down one of the only two Iraqi sur
vivors of the attack rCo a boy who was 10 years old at the time rCo and a US sol
dier who was directly involved in the incident. D|+ndar invited the two to meet
for the first time 17 years later. The encounter makes the disturbing long-term
consequences of war and the lasting pain on both sides vividly apparent.

Following the publication of the video, the US military conducted an internal in
vestigation, after which none of the soldiers were brought to trial. For Julian
Assange, however, it was a different story: It was the first time in American hi
story that publishing information the government considered secret was successfu
lly treated as a crime.

D|+ndar was able to accompany Julian AssangerCOs wife, Stella, and their two chi
ldren on one of their last visits to Belmarsh maximum security prison and to the
hearings at Britain's High Court. Although Assange is now free, D|+ndar asks wh
at the ruling means for journalism. What will happen if journalists around the w
orld stop reporting on war crimes, corruption or government wrongdoing for fear
of conviction under an espionage law? The long-term implications of the Assange
case are only just beginning to emerge. The film tells a gripping and highly top
ical story about the fight for truth.


https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=PYIyq6tpQ-4


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