The Australian Prime Minister said Monday, June 20 that he intends to commit “diplomaticallyabout the prosecution by the United States against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who is fighting to avoid being extradited there.
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As more and more voices are raised in his country for him to intervene in the case of Julian Assange, a 50-year-old Australian, Anthony Albanese has confirmed the comments he made last year, when he was in opposition. He then said of her that “enough is enough» and claimed not «not see the point of prosecuting Julian Assange“. On Monday, he said he had “the intention to lead a government that engages diplomatically and in a timely manner with our interlocutors“.
Stella Assange, the wife of the 50-year-old Australian, told ABC radio on Monday that she understood that the government of Anthony Albanese was raising her husband’s case with the administration of President Joe Biden. “This is extremely encouraging news.“, she said, adding that she had not seen Julian Assange since a British court last week opened the way for his extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States.
He faces up to 175 years in prison.
The British government announced on June 18 that it had signed the decree for the extradition to the United States of the founder of WikiLeaks, who will appeal. He is being prosecuted in the United States, where he faces 175 years in prison, for having published in 2010 on his WikiLeaks site 250,000 diplomatic cables and around 500,000 confidential documents relating to the activities of the American army in Iraq and Afghanistan. He faces up to 175 years in prison.
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Julian Assange has been detained for three years in Belmarsh high security prison, near London. Previously, he had spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he took refuge in 2012, while on bail. He then feared extradition to the United States, or Sweden where he was the subject of rape proceedings since abandoned. He was finally arrested by British police in April 2019 and imprisoned.
The possible extradition of Julian Assange to the United States has led Australian figures, including former Foreign Secretary Bob Carr, to call on Anthony Albanese to ask the United States to drop the charges. “If Anthony Albanese asks, I think America will acceptBob Carr wrote Monday in an op-ed published in the Sydney Morning Herald. During the campaign for the legislative elections in May, which led to the victory of his Labor party, Anthony Albanese declared that Julian Assange had already paid a high price for the publication of this information.
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