CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling was convicted in "a travesty of a trial" for violating the Espionage Act. He says Julian Assange cannot hope to have a fair hearing in the U.S. criminal justice system if he is prosecuted under the same law for publishing classified documents that exposed war crimes.

Sterling was among the witnesses who spoke in Assange's defense at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington on January 20, 2023. The event is named after the Belmarsh prison in London, where Assange has languished for years while fighting extradition to the U.S.

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