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July 22, 2020

Acclaimed Fashion Designer Locks Herself in Bird Cage to Protest Jailing of Julian Assange
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In London, the acclaimed fashion designer Vivienne Westwood locked
herself inside a giant yellow bird cage outside a London court Tuesday
to protest the ongoing jailing of Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange and
his possible extradition to the United States.

Vivienne Westwood: "I am Julian Assange. I am the canary in the cage. He
has been trapped by a big net, taken out of the sun and shoved in a
cage. And the problem is, they want to send him to America for a
sentence of 175 years and stick him in a concrete block for a jail. And
this could happen to every journalist."



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