Julian Assange
Sergio Cascavilla 2014, panel
Julian Assange, Australian journalist (b. 1971), in 2006 Founds the WikiLeaks website. Between 2010 and 2011, he published classified documents (90,000 files) on the war in Afghanistan, 500,000 on the war in Iraq, and finally on Guantanamo, the prison where the US holds terrorists arrested after the attack on the Twin Towers. The files were released worldwide, revealing violence and abuse. Assange fled from England to the Ecuadorian embassy, which granted him asylum for four years. Violating state secrets could lead to a life sentence as a computer hacker. Cascavilla immortalizes this hero, guilty only of spreading the truth, and does so in a joking tone by placing him inside a suitcase as he escapes to the embassy.