08.08.2015 - 14:54 [ Netzpolitik ]

Jacob Appelbaum zum #Landesverrat: The nightmare is the punishment – Der Alptraum ist die Strafe

In the summer of 2013 I arrived in Berlin and applied for a journalist visa. My visa application was accepted and amongst the paperwork required, I had a letter of support from „Der Spiegel“ and another from netzpolitik.org. Thanks to those in German investigative journalism, I found a new home. A home where it became safe to write and to expose crimes committed by the powerful. This includes extra-judicial assassination kill lists, mass and so-called targeted surveillance, economic espionage, and all manner of political spying to further non-democratic domination. In Germany, I found a safe haven that the country of my birth is no longer for my investigative journalism.