Dreyfus was an army officer who was tried and convicted for treason, sentenced to life and sent to Devil's Island to be imprisoned and tortured, for the sole re

Dreyfus was an army officer who was tried and convicted for treason, sentenced to life and sent to Devil's Island to be imprisoned and tortured, for the sole reason that he was a Jew (and a convenient scapegoat for a crime obviously committed by someone else). It was a disgusting display of virulent anti-Semitism that prefigured the Vichy Regime and one of the most shameful events in French history. Comparing Assange to Dreyfus is obscene.