Julian Assange will address the 67th United Nations General Assembly, currently in session in New York, from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London via live transmission provided by RT. The speech will be carried live by RT on the network’s English and Spanish channels around the world.
The world-famous cyber-activist and Wikileaks co-founder will be one of the feature speakers at the exclusive event, Strengthening the International Human Rights: The Diplomatic Asylum. Via live video transmission Assange will debate the legitimacy and applicability of the Diplomatic Asylum from a legal and a human rights perspective with other distinguished panelists, Mr. Ricardo Patino, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador and Mr. Baher Azmy, Legal Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, in front of the participants of the 67th UN General Assembly.
The exclusive event will take place at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday, September 26, from 6:30 to 8:30pm EST (2:30-4:40am Moscow time) and will be broadcast live by RT in English and Spanish, as well as on RT’s YouTube channel. The live international transmission has been organized and set up by RT at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Assange is currently receiving asylum in his fight to avoid extradition from the United Kingdom to Sweden.
RT is a global international news network that broadcasts in English, Arabic and Spanish from its studios in Moscow and Washington, DC, and is available to 550 million viewers in more than 100 countries worldwide. RT became the first TV news channel in the world to pass 750 million views on YouTube and is the first Russian TV channel to receive two nominations for the prestigious International Emmy awards.