A press release issued by U.S. Department of State press secretary Morgan Ortagus asserts that, “A free press is essential to an informed citizenry. A vigorous press can, for instance, expose corruption, shine a light on human rights abuses, and provide the public essential information during crises.”
One such example of the free press is WikiLeaks, which has certainly exposed corruption, and whose founder Julian Assange has been held in conditions leading to his expression of what the UN Rapporteur on Torture considered “all the symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture” during his imprisonment in British jail for over a year.
