Videoconference of Assange at the Latin American Progressive Encouter, Quito, Ecuador, September 2015. Demotix/Oscar Garrido Ruiz. Some rights reserved.
Christmas in the Ecuadorian embassy with Julian Assange, who has been confined there for the last three years. A quiet Christmas, with its share of warmth and gentle laughter, a modest amount of alcohol, and a few friends and family. Christmas Eve with Assange’s father John, a successful architect, and Australian like his son. Present also are an Australian documentary film-maker, a Greek-French film director, and a Guatemalan human rights lawyer. Plus the present writer who requested and obtained permission to attend and to write an account of the Christmas of a man who has spent three years without seeing daylight, or breathing fresh air, or feeling the breeze on his face, or glimpsing the horizon.
