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Turning Point Talks is delighted, once again, to host John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father and his half brother Gabriel to Byronshire.
This time John and Gabriel will be showing their new documentary Ithaka and answering questions afterwards.
Seating is limited, so please book to avoid disappointment. Get your tickets here.
Ithaka is a moving and intimate portrayal of one father’s fight to save his son. It exposes the brutal realities of the campaign to free Julian Assange.
The world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has become an emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes.
Now with Julian facing a 175-year sentence if extradited to the US, his family members are confronting the prospect of losing Julian forever to the abyss of the US justice system. This David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with Julian’s health declining in a British maximum-security prison, the clock is ticking.
Now it’s up to Julian’s father, John Shipton, and fiancé Stella Moris, to join forces to advocate for Julian on this international odyssey. As they rally a world-wide network of supporters and politicians, they cautiously step into the media’s glare – and are forced to confront the events that made Julian a global flashpoint.
Seating is limited, so please book to avoid disappointment. Get your tickets here.
The movie is named after one of John Shipton’s favourite poems.
Ithaka