There is a battle in the halls of the European parliament to ensure that the latest report on fundamental rights references the US prosecution and attempted extradition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.
The EU’s parliament will be voting on its latest report on fundamental rights, which also encompasses media freedom. The report on fundamental freedoms for 2018 – 2019 originally mentioned the detention and prosecution of Mr Assange as setting a “dangerous precedent for journalists as affirmed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe”. But a committee of EU parliamentarians removed the passage.