May 20, 2025
Julian Assange at the Cannes Film Festival
During the premiere of a documentary about his life, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks displayed the names of 4,986 Palestinian children killed in Gaza.
At the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Julian Assange reappeared in public on Tuesday with a powerful visual statement: a T-shirt printed with the names of 4,986 Palestinian children, all under the age of five, who have died in Gaza as a result of Israeli attacks since 2023. The data comes from international humanitarian organizations.
The Australian activist and journalist made his appearance during the presentation of The Six Billion Dollar Man, a documentary directed by Eugene Jarecki that portrays Assange’s complex legal and political saga following the publication of confidential documents through WikiLeaks.
A symbolic gesture that did not go unnoticed
Before the film’s premiere, during the festival’s official photo shoot, Assange appeared wearing a garment laden with meaning. The T-shirt not only caught the attention of the media, but also linked him directly to the international outcry for the victims of the genocide in Palestine.
Palestine present
The gesture seeks to focus attention on the humanitarian consequences of the conflict, especially on the Palestinian children, at a time when allegations of human rights violations continue to pile up in international courts and forums.
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Source: Alma Plus Online, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English