Julian Assange is open to political actions as Cannes offers documentary

By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray Cannes, France (Reuters) -Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who is on the Cannes film this week for the documentary “The Six billion dollar man,” thinking about how to become politically active once he has fully recovered from prison, his wife, Stella said. Assange, 53, returned to his native Australia after pleading guilty in June last year under an agreement with US officials to one score of the acquisition and disclosure of national security material. The plea ended Assange’s five-year accommodation in a British prison, which followed seven years at Ecuador Ambassade, as he tried to avoid extradition after Sweden about sexual assault allegations. Assange denied the allegations and called them a pretext to deliver him over WikiLeaks to the United States. In 2010, Wikileaks released hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on the wars of Washington in Afghanistan and Iraq – the greatest security offenses of their kind in US military history – along with diplomatic cables. “He was in a very serious situation in prison. He recovered from it,” Stella Assange told Reuters in Cannes. “But now he comes to understand how serious the situation is out of (prison) and thinks, and makes plans to find the means to do about it,” she added. “He is very, very concerned about the state of the world and the state in which we are all now,” says Stella, who met in London in London in 2011 while working as part of his legal team. Julian and Stella Assange, wearing a broche with a photo of British designer Vivienne Westwood holding a sign with a stop -death, walked the red carpet on Wednesday night. Julian has not spoken to any of his appearances so far. Canary in a coal mine takes on the documentary of Eugene year-round director Eugene 1970s the tone of a high-tech international thriller to tell Assange’s fight against extradition, using WikiLeaks footage and archives, and previously unpublished evidence. Yearki, who started filming before Assange was released, said he never expected to see him walk as a free man in Cannes. Through the invitation of Assange, the festival sent a message about the need for freedom of information and a free press, Heecki told Reuters, as these values ​​in many parts of the world are declining according to an index of Reporters Without Borders. The director called Assange ‘a canary in the coal mine’ to predict the current US government movements to exercise more control over media access to US President Donald Trump. “If we had taken a little more seriously, we might have seen a lot of this coming,” the American Director said. Assange’s attorney, Jennifer Robinson, told Reuters that the film portrayed the founder of Wikileaks as he should be shown. “This film is absolutely essential in terms of telling the story of free speech and what Julian Assange, his case to the world means, not just for him, but to the world,” she said. (Reporting by Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray; Editing by Sandra Maler)