(بين) و (جيري) المُشارك (بين كوهين) إعتُقلوا في إحتجاج (دي جيوليان أسانج)

(بن كوهين)، شريك (بن جيري) تم احتجازه يوم الخميس في (واشنطن العاصمة) أثناء مظاهرة تدعم (جوليان آسانج)، مؤسس ويكيليكس) والناشر

إلى جانب مجموعة الدعوة النسائية (كوهين) من شركة الآيس كريم المعروفة جيداً فيرمونت أدان مقاضاة حكومة الولايات المتحدة لـ(أسانج) على أنها اعتداء على حرية الصحافة، مما أدى إلى الاحتجاج بالقرب من وزارة العدل.

Cohen was arrested together with CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans for blocking the entrance to the Department of Justice (DOJ) building. The pair planted themselves in front of the walkway, holding up access for roughly an hour despite a heavy downpour. The scene was captured on camera.

لفتح الاحتجاج، كوهين وضع علامة "حرية الصحافة" و أعلن، "حرية الصحافة ترتفع في الدخان".

"ليس هناك ديمقراطية بدون حرية الصحافة لأن الصحافة هي الشيء الوحيد الذي يمكن أن يحمل الحكومة المسؤولية ولا توجد حرية الصحافة طالما أن (آسانج) تتم مقاضاتها" قال (كوهين)

At the time of the protest, Assange, then 52, was being held at Belmarsh Prison, a maximum-security facility in southeast London, while fighting extradition to the United States to face charges under the Espionage Act.

هذا شنيع (جوليان آسانج) غير عنيف ويفترض أنه بريء، ومع ذلك بطريقة أو بأخرى، فقد سجن في الحبس الانفرادي لمدة أربع سنوات. هذا هو التعذيب، وقال كوهين. "لقد كشف الحقيقة، ومن أجل ذلك، هو يعاني، ونحن بحاجة إلى أن نفعل ما بوسعنا لمساعدته."

The WikiLeaks founder faced 18 counts tied to the publication of classified files about the Iraq War and Guantanamo Bay between 2010 and 2011. If convicted on all counts, he faced a maximum of up to 175 years in prison.

وقد أدان العديد من الصحفيين القضية المرفوعة ضد أسانج كهجوم على الصحافة الحرة والمفتوحة.

(كوهين) وصل إلى (واشنطن العاصمة) يبدو أنه مستعد للإعتقال

“If you’re trying to fight an issue of injustice, you can scream and yell, you can write, but the ultimate thing you can do is get arrested for it, to disobey the unjust law. So that’s what I’m doing and I feel good about it,” Cohen told a reporter while seated in the walkway leading to the DOJ entrance.

بعد ثلاث ساعات تقريبا في الحجز، قال كوهين في وظيفة على X أنه و(إيفانز) تم إطلاق سراحه من قبل الشرطة

قبل أيام، في يوم الإستقلال، بين جيري لفت الانتباه مع بيان أن الولايات المتحدة أسست على مسروقة أراضي الشعوب الأصلية التي ينبغي إعادتها - وظيفة ولدت نقاشا مسخّرا، مع بعض الثناء على الموقف وآخرين يدعون إلى المقاطعة.

Update: Assange Freed in 2024 Plea Deal

Much has changed since this 2023 protest. On June 24, 2024, Julian Assange was released from Belmarsh Prison after reaching a plea agreement with U.S. prosecutors, bringing his long extradition fight to a close. He pleaded guilty to a single felony count under the Espionage Act — conspiring to obtain and disclose classified national defense documents — at a hearing in Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands, on June 26, 2024. The presiding judge sentenced him to time already served (the roughly five years he spent in Belmarsh), allowing him to walk free and return to his home country of Australia. In his first public remarks afterward, Assange told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that he had “pled guilty to journalism,” choosing freedom over a continued legal battle. Press-freedom organizations welcomed his release while warning that the deal set a troubling precedent for journalists. For earlier AEGIS reporting on the extradition fight, see how والدة (جوليان أسانج) طفلين حذرت من مصير مؤسس (ويكيليكس).

نشاط (كوهين) مستمر: أُلقي القبض مجدداً على (غازا)

Cohen’s willingness to put his body on the line did not end with the Assange campaign. On May 14, 2025, the 74-year-old co-founder was arrested again at the U.S. Capitol — one of seven protesters forcibly removed from a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified. Rising to his feet, Cohen denounced U.S. complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza, shouting that Congress “pays for bombs that kill children in Gaza” and pairing that charge with the Republican push to cut Medicaid at home: “Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in the U.S.”

Capitol Police zip-tied his hands behind his back and walked him out, charging him with the misdemeanor offense of crowding, obstructing, and incommoding. As he was led away, Cohen pressed the point that mattered most to him: “Congress and the senators need to ease the siege. They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids.” His protest came as humanitarian organizations warned of famine across Gaza, where Israel’s prolonged obstruction of aid had pushed the territory’s population toward mass starvation under a bombardment that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of them children. A CODEPINK spokesperson framed it bluntly, saying Americans were expected to look away while Israel was “literally starving them to death.”

The stance was consistent with the company’s record: Ben & Jerry’s announced in 2021 that it would stop selling its ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territory, calling continued sales there inconsistent with its values, and Cohen has since become one of the more prominent corporate voices condemning Israel’s conduct and Washington’s military support for it. For more on the deadly toll of the aid crisis Cohen was protesting, see our report on how قُتل أكثر من 30 فلسطينيا وأصيب 200 فلسطيني بجروح من جراء إطلاق النار الإسرائيلي بالقرب من موقع المعونة الغذائية في الولايات المتحدة في غزة.

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