The Latest: France's government says it won't consider offering Julian Assange political asylum unless he asks for it.
France’s government says it won’t consider offering Julian Assange political asylum unless he asks for it.
Lawyer Juan Branco told The Associated Press on Thursday that Macron should offer mediation and to “take this man under our protection.” He said Assange has a small child in France. Jeremy Corbyn said in a tweet that the U.S. is trying to extradite Assange because he exposed “evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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