Saeed Pourreza Press TV, London The day he and his supporters feared is almost here.

February 24th 2020, when Julian Assange will face part one of a court hearing on whether or not he can be extradited to the United States, a country that wants to lock him away for 175 years for doing what all journalists are supposed to do: talking truth to power, or in his case, for publishing classified US diplomatic and military documents starting in July 2010, among them cables known as the Afghan and Iraq War Logs.