Ai Weiwei carried out a solitary protest in front of the court house where Assange's hearing ie being held. He was doing what every journalist ought to be doing.

Daniel Ellsberg, famed leaker of the Pentagon Papers that showed the dishonesty of the US about fighting the Vietnam War, testified that Assange asked the US government to help redact the leaked documents so there would be no risk anyone working for the US would be endangered, but the US government refused to help, so as to be able to accuse Assange of endangering them.