The prime minister raised the plight of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with Biden at their private dinner and in the Oval Office.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has raised the plight of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in talks this week with United States President Joe Biden, stepping up efforts to find a way to release the Australian from jail.
Albanese confirmed to this masthead that he raised his concern about Assange in his discussions with the president during meetings that included an informal dinner, a discussion in the Oval Office at the White House and a formal meeting with Biden and his cabinet secretaries. “Ideally, we would like the government to act as it does for other Australians who are imprisoned overseas.”Shipton, who saw Assange last week, said a visit to his brother was always “full of anxiety” about his brother’s condition.
When Australian journalists asked US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby about the case this week, Kirby said it was an extradition matter for the Department of Justice. US President Joe Biden pardonned Wikileaks collaborator Chelsea Manning, but that was after the former soldier had served time in jail.Shipton said people cared about the issue because it was becoming a sign of the “inequality” in the relationship between Australia and the US.“He’s an Australia citizen who’s been unjustly imprisoned and it’s up to the Australian government to defend their citizens overseas.
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