American whistleblower Edward Snowden told "every politician and journalist who gives and writes speeches" that they cannot save Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died on February 16, but they can save WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is facing possible extradition United States of America.
"If you remain silent now, when you can actually influence the outcome, you never stood up for principles - you just hoped for applause," Snowden wrote on the X social network.
He added that "the victim of Assange's 'crime' (journalism) is the state, not a person."
"It is the definition of a political offense, which the extradition treaty between the United States and Great Britain expressly prohibits," said Snowden, who has been in Russia since 2013, where he was granted asylum and citizenship after publishing a series of secret documents about American and British monitoring programs.
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