Australian MPs urge US to drop charges against Julian Assange

A group of Australian parliamentarians from various parties on Tuesday met with the US ambassador to Australia and called on Washington to drop charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen.

A delegation of lawmakers known as the Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group told Ambassador Caroline Kennedy that Assange had broad support in the Australian Parliament.

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said in a statement that lawmakers “inspired the Ambassador with broad support for Mr Assange in the Australian Parliament, which was clearly supported last week by both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition when they said the issue had been going on long enough. . .”

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last week he was “disappointed” with the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to extradite Assange. If convicted in the United States, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing information related to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, antiwa.com notes.

The conviction would set a dangerous precedent for press freedom in the United States and around the world because Assange is not a US citizen. There is more pressure on the Biden administration to drop the charges against Assange, who has been in London’s Belmarsh prison since April 2019, when the Trump administration’s Justice Department released the indictment against him.

Assange was imprisoned a few years later at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, until then-President of the Latin American country Lenin Moreno withdrew his political asylum, a protection granted by President Rafael Correa.

Other world leaders spoke out for Assange, including Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “It’s a shame that a journalist who exposed one state’s deception against another is arrested and sentenced to death in prison, and we’re not doing anything to get him released,” Lula said last week.

In April, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador received at the National Palace John and Gabriel Shipton, the father and brother of the founder of WikiLeaks, to whom he assured that he would continue to defend him, given that Assange is a political prisoner and his case “This is an unacceptable affront to freedom of speech” .

Source: Juventud Rebelde

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