Friends and family of Julian Assange are urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to publicly call for the Wikileaks co-founder's extradition to the United States to be stopped. jamesglenday abc730
Friends and family of Julian Assange are urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to publicly call for the WikiLeaks co-founder's extradition to the United States on espionage charges to be stopped.
They claim there is a serious chance Mr Assange could be on a plane within weeks and are urging the PM to now make a public statement, clearly expressing Australia's displeasure. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is resisting pressure to publicly call for Julian Assange's extradition to be stopped. But the US Justice Department accuses him of being involved in illegal hacking and helping Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst, get the classified information.
A spokesperson for Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says Julian Assange could expect consular assistance "like other Australians". "This case is not about the 2016 publications," Jennifer Robinson, one of Mr Assange's lawyers, explained.
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