
He spent 5 years in prison for exposing war crimes. His first red carpet outfit had 4,986 names on it.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made his first major public appearance since his release from Belmarsh Prison at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. He was there for the premiere of The Six Billion Dollar Man, a Golden Globe-winning documentary about his life directed by Eugene Jarecki. But the conversation quickly shifted to what he was wearing.
Assange walked the red carpet in a white T-shirt printed with the names of 4,986 Palestinian children aged five and under who were killed since the conflict began in 2023. The back of the shirt read "Stop Israel." His wife Stella Assange wore a brooch featuring a photo of designer Vivienne Westwood holding a sign that read "Stop Killing."
Assange spent five years in a British high-security prison and seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy before his release in 2024 under a plea deal with the U.S. government

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