Who is Julian Assange, and why is the world agitated over him?

For Tagalogs, just drop the “ge” in the name, add an “S” sound at the end and you get to have a more or less correct pronunciation of the surname of Julian.

At any rate, December 29 was the day a group from the Filipino intellectual community sought to contribute to the worldwide campaign of preventing the extradition of Julian Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States.