Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges, calling for the WikiLeaks founder to either be put on trial in Britain or brought back to Australia | Gallo_Ways
and England’s High Court last week ruled Assange could be extradited to the US.
Mr Joyce said people needed to “set aside the grave issues that surround the actions of Assange” from whether he should be extradited to the US. Mr Joyce sad liberal democracies needed to uphold a “vessel of rights” that included the “right to liberty and the right to habeas corpus”.
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