You have to be a special kind of vile to call yourself a journalist and smear a fellow journalist while he is being tortured to death by fascists for doing actual journalism. Here's Nick Miller from an earlier article:
Even if Assange is extradited, tried and convicted on this charge – and he would fight both extradition and the charge not just on the evidence but on America’s constitutionally assured right of free speech and history of protecting journalism – he faces a maximum five years’ jail. It would probably be much less. .......
His legal team claim he could not risk going to Sweden because he would not face a fair trial in the US. It’s quite the claim. And it’s the sort of claim that requires extraordinary proof, because if you don’t have a justice system, you don’t have a democracy.