Assange wins. The cost: Press freedom is crushed, and ...
· The cost: Press freedom is crushed, and dissent labelled mental illness. The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US supermax jail for the rest of his life, is a welcome legal victory, but one swamped by larger lessons that should disturb us deeply.