This was the highlight of the Rototom Social Forum, the Benicàssim reggae music festival: action supporting the Australian programmer Julian Assange, although they were eventually dropped from the speaker list Stella Assange, current partner. In addition, the statements of one of the guests, the former Deputy of the Parliament, also created controversy. 5 Star Movement Alessandro di BattistaIn favor of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Finally, the former partisan griller has admitted to praising the Kremlin leader in the past, but has flatly refused to be a Putinist. “This neither makes me a Putinist nor does it make me a Putinist. against “Sending arms to Ukraine,” he stressed.
Di Battista justified his past praises to the country’s president, who is now ordering the invasion of Ukraine. “In the past, it was during the Syrian war, because I thought the West was behaving the way it was in Syria. Iraq, AfghanistanAnd Libya; and it was tragic for the people.” The civil war in Syria started with a popular revolt against the Bashar Assad regime in 2011. The figure is much higher. Syrian Human Rights NetworkHe calculates that the death toll of civilians close to the opposition could be around. 230,000. Of these, about 200,000 did so in the hands of regime forces, and some 6,000 in the hands of Russian troops. Islamic State would have been approximately third on the podium. 5,000. So, about 90% Most of those killed are in the hands of the Damascus regime or its ally, the Russian Federation.
He was asked about the possible contradictions of his trips to Russia and his interviews with politicians such as then-vice-president of the Duma, Sergei Zhelezniak, who inspired important laws restricting freedom of the press at the time, and his participation in a private forum. Di Battista demands this fundamental right by tiptoeing. “True; I’ve never denied that (Russia has no freedom of speech) but I don’t live in Russia, I live in Europe and the double standard humiliates me: yes Julian Assange All European politicians would have made the issue their priority if he had been a Russian journalist and had the scandals uncovered there,” he stressed.
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One of his trips to Russia assures him that he did it for the purpose of knowing, which culminated after the invasion of Ukraine at a time of heightened political repression. opinion your Russians. “The Russians have a vision and it’s important for me to know that; I think a lot of journalists in Italy should go there because a lot of lies have been written,” he accused. HE former parliamentary griller He did not mention his controversial statements in favor of recognition. annexation of Crimea Events attributed to him by Russia or in the past, such as asking the “Russian embassy” from the headquarters of the parliamentary group to get a no vote in the referendum proposed for constitutional reform in 2016. then Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and centre-left Democratic Party.
Support for the Assange figure was unanimous, recalling the r.WikiLeaks comments About the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And the belief that escalating the campaign is necessary to prevent his extradition to the United States, where, according to the speakers, he will not receive a “fair trial.” “Assange is a symbol of press freedom,” said Di Battista. M5S Deputy also participated in the discussion Sabrina Pignedolli and spoke via videoconference from the UK Joseph Farrell WikiLeaks ambassador.
Source: Informacion
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