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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ben-jerrys-co-founder-arrested-   
   085247847.html   
      
   The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s has been arrested in Washington during a   
   protest against the prosecution of Julian Assange.   
      
   Ben Cohen, who co-founded the ice cream brand with his friend Jerry   
   Greenfield in 1977, was arrested by police for blocking the entrance to   
   the Department of Justice (DOJ) building on Thursday.   
      
   It is the latest headache for Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, which   
   was named “an international sponsor of war” by the Ukrainian government on   
   Monday.   
      
   The company, which also owns Marmite, Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Dove, was   
   accused by Ukrainian veterans of “contributing hundreds of millions in tax   
   revenues to a state which is killing civilians”.   
      
   Unilever has made a virtue of basing its business model on “social   
   purpose” but has continued to sell food and hygiene products in Russia   
   following its invasion of Ukraine.   
      
   Mr Cohen, 72, tweeted later on Thursday that he had been released from   
   police custody after being held for three hours.   
      
   He said: “It’s time for @POTUS to follow thru with his promise --   
   Journalism is NOT a crime. #Dropthecharges and #FreeAssange.”   
      
   Mr Assange has been imprisoned at Belmarsh Prison in London since April   
   2019 after leaking state secrets on Wikileaks, and faces possible   
   extradition to the US.   
      
   Mr Cohen said that Mr Assange’s imprisonment was against freedom of   
   speech.   
      
   Pictures show the 72-year-old confronting police and sitting on the   
   pavement as pink smoke swirls around him.   
      
   Mr Assange, 52, has been indicted by the Justice Department on 18 charges   
   for the publication of the Afghan War Diary and the Iraq War Logs.   
      
   Last month the WikiLeaks editor lost his latest appeal against extradition   
   to the United States, where he could be sentenced to 175 years in prison.   
      
   Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s brand has adopted hardline stances on social   
   issues and geopolitics, finding itself at the centre of controversy on a   
   number of occasions.   
      
   On Tuesday Ben & Jerry’s was attacked by Conservatives in the US after it   
   demanded that the “stolen indigenous land” of Mount Rushmore be handed   
   back to the Lakota Sioux tribe in an Independence Day tweet.   
      
   Unilever declined to comment. Ben & Jerry’s has been contacted for comment   
      
      
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