Assange’s family step up campaign for release | claylucas
Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s brother, said the German deputy foreign minister had been sympathetic to the Australian’s plight.
John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father, and Gabriel Shipton outside the British consulate in New York on Friday after Britain ordered the Australian publisher’s extradition to the US.Shipton said he believed Australians now understood what his brother faced if extradited from London’s high-security Belmarsh prison to the US, and that Australian politicians understood the community’s concern.
A group of Labor, Coalition, Greens, teal and crossbench MPs are continuing their campaign to push the federal government to formally ask the US to drop its charges. Assange’s wife Stella Morris. They have two children and were married in Belmarsh prison earlier this year.Asked about the opposition’s comments, Gabriel Shipton said they were not relevant. “You’ve got China using Julian as a whip for the UK in the US – you know, like, ‘Don’t lecture us on press freedom when you’ve got a journalist and publisher locked up in prison.’ I think Peter Dutton’s arguments fall away pretty quickly.
Ruby also attended Assange’s court hearings since December 2011, and said she was hopeful Albanese would now intervene. She said watching Assange “really deteriorate over 10 years might make my hope desperate, but I believe that Albo will try and make a breakthrough. He gets what’s at stake and why it matters.”
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