DRACONIAN NEW #ESPIONAGE LAWS

Are people in the #UK aware of the severe and sweeping new draconian laws being put forward in the name of "modernising" #espionageLaws?

Things like life-sentences from the current two-year jail sentence etc.

#NationalSecurityBill #OfficialSecretsAct #publicInterestDefense #chillingEffect #spying #foreignSpy #arbitraryLawfare #JeremyCorbyn #EdwardSnowden #JulianAssange

This is beyond shocking 😡

Under proposed #UKGovernment reforms to #OfficialSecretsAct, journalists could be jailed for up to 14 years for publishing stories that “embarrass” #UKGovernment

Boris Johnson: "I dont want to have a world in which people are prosecuted for doing what they think is their pubic duty, and in the public interest"

Julian Assange remains in a UK jail solely for publications in the public interest #FreePress #FreeAssange #OfficialSecretsAct https://t.co/v9U3v5hIwT

"#VanessaBaraitser states “I've found that #Assange’s conduct is capable of amounting to an offence in the #UK. (…) I don't accept that the mere fact charges are brought in the US demonstrates (…) bad faith.”

This [seems to argue] that #JulianAssange’s actions (…) fall foul of (…) the UK’s #OfficialSecretsAct 1989, [criminalising #publishers] "who disclose protected, damaging materials and which they have disclosed knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, would be #damaging”."

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