{"id":57643,"date":"2012-08-20T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T09:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=57643"},"modified":"2012-08-20T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:21:22","slug":"us-must-end-wikileaks-witchhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/57643-us-must-end-wikileaks-witchhunt.html","title":{"rendered":"US must end WikiLeaks \u201cwitchhunt\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Delivering a speech from the Ecuador embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange said the United States must \u201crenounce its witchhunt against WikiLeaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Assange continued, saying that the US must &#8220;dissolve its FBI investigation&#8221; and pledge not to act against journalists who are \u201cshining a light upon the secret crimes of the powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ecuadorean government announced last week that it will grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum, defying threats of arrest from the UK government.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2012\/08\/assange-speech-at-embassy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/57601-assange-suffers-inside-embassy.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Assange suffers inside Embassy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WikiLeaks founder faces asylum\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/57511-wikileaks-founder-faces-asylum.html\"><strong>WikiLeaks founder faces asylum<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/55117-wikileaks-accepting-donations-again.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wikileaks accepting donations again<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/54777-wikileaks-1-visa-0.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wikileaks: 1, Visa and MasterCard: 0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder says authorities must not act against the website and its actions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":25463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[615,7979,613],"class_list":["post-57643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-julian-assange","tag-quicknews","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57657,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57643\/revisions\/57657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}