By Jorge Nuñez Arzuaga *

A documentary film series dedicated to the Australian journalist and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, began in Mar del Plata this Friday at the cultural center Con la Fuerza del Mar.

With free admission, the film "The war against journalism" by Guatemalan director Juan Passarelli was presented. This was followed by a discussion and debate with the large audience.

The film screening included the participation of journalist Jorge Nuñez Arzuaga and writer and artist Daniela Tomé, who also exhibited her paintings about the Assange cause.

The cycle is organized by Libertad Assange Argentina and Free Assange Wave. In Buenos Aires it started in September and continues with the presence of journalists, artists, lawyers and Human Rights Defenders such as Teresa Parodi, Alicia Castro, Cristina Camaño, Santiago O'Donnell, Javier Romero and Martín García, among others.

It should be noted that October could be a defining month for the Australian journalist, since after seven years of asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he is being arbitrarily detained in a prison in England. He is waiting for the resolution of the Extradition request by the United States Government, which accuses him of espionage.

Assange published on the web in 2010 documents that proved the crimes and violations to the Human Rights committed against civilians by the American army in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

* Poet and journalist. Member of the Centro de Estudios Humanistas Moebius, Mar del Plata (Argentina).