One name that cropped up repeatedly when Julian Assange finally returned home a free man last week was that of David McBride.
“It’s hard to comprehend that as Julian Assange landed in Canberra a free man, David McBride watched from prison. Freedom and respect, not prison and persecution, is what whistleblowers deserve,” tweeted Greens Senator David Shoebridge.
“[W]e cannot forget that David McBride is imprisoned for leaking documents that led to the Afghan Files reporting,” Human Rights Law Centre’s Kieran Pender, who has written repeatedly on McBride for Crikey, tweeted.
“It is a shame on our democracy that the only person to be in prison in relation to Australian war crimes is the person who revealed them,” said longtime Assange lawyer and human rights barrister Jennifer
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