“Enough is enough, there’s nothing to be gained by Mr Assange’s continued incarceration,” Albanese said on ABC television.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed the news that US President Joe Biden says he is considering a request to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
“This is an encouraging comment from President Biden,” Albanese said, adding Australia had consistently lobbied for the US government to drop its pursuit. “Enough is enough, there’s nothing to be gained by Mr Assange’s continued incarceration,” he said.
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister, left, and US President Joe Biden at a news conference during a state visit in Washington.Australia argues there is a disconnect between the US treatment of Assange and Manning. Then-president Barack Obama commuted Manning’s 35-year sentence to seven years, which allowed her release in 2017.Assange’s supporters say he is a journalist protected by the First Amendment who exposed US military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan that was in the public interest.
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