Edward Snowden calls Assange's arrest ' dark moment for press freedom'

Former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden on Thursday called Wikileaks co-founder Julias Assange's arrest a 'dark moment for press freedom.'Snowden tweeted a link to the video of Assange being taken into the police custody after being evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy in London." Images of Ecuador's ambassador inviting the UK's secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of--like it or not--award-winning journalism out of the building are going to end up in the history books. Assange's critics may cheer, but this is a dark moment for press freedom," his tweet read.Assange was arrested earlier in the day in London in connection with the INA paper leaks.Following his arrest, former French MP Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Melenchon said that his country must grant political asylum to Assange at a time when 'his freedom is threatened'." Julian Assange acted for the cause of the freedom and independence of France by revealing aggressive ...