Prime minister pushed back on idea of US president personally stepping in, but Gabriel Shipton calls prosecution ‘entirely political’
Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s brother, says the US prosecution of Assange for leaking thousands of documents about the Iraq war is ‘entirely political’.Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s brother, says the US prosecution of Assange for leaking thousands of documents about the Iraq war is ‘entirely political’.get back Cheng Lei from ChinaSpeaking on the ABC’s Insiders program, Albanese reiterated his position that “enough is enough – it is time that this issue was brought to a conclusion”.
But Albanese played down the idea of the US president personally stepping in to order the case be dropped. Shipton said the US president’s rhetoric about not influencing the Department of Justice was not surprising “given the number of prosecutions against Biden’s main political opponent”, Donald Trump.
But Shipton said Assange’s prosecution was “unique and a novel use of the law developed during the Trump administration” and was “entirely political”.securing the release of Cheng
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