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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 publisher’s   
   many years of criminal prosecution and imprisonment signal a positive outcome   
   fo   
   r press freedom?   
      
   Turkish journalist Can Dündar, 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. Dündar sees it as the most important trial for   
   pr   
   ess freedom in this century. In this documentary, Dündar decides not to focus   
   o   
   n the controversial figure of Assange, but instead on his most controversial   
   pub   
   lication: “Collateral Murder”, 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.   
      
   Dündar’s 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 – a boy who was 10 years old at the time – and a US   
   sol   
   dier who was directly involved in the incident. Dündar 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.   
      
   Dündar was able to accompany Julian Assange’s 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, Dündar 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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