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Australian Lawmakers Urge US to Drop Case Against Assange
Link: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/05/09/australian-lawmakers-urge-us-to-drop-case-against-assange/
The Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group met with the US ambassador to Australia A cross-party group of Australian members of parliament met with the US ambassador to Australia on Tuesday and called for Washington to drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. The delegation of lawmakers, known as the Bring Julian Assange Home Parlia-mentary Group, told US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy that there was broad support for Assange in the Australian Parliament. ● Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said in a statement that the lawmakers “impressed upon the Ambassador the broad support in the Australian Parliament for Mr. Assange, which was echoed clearly by both the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader last week when they said this matter had gone on long enough.” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last week that he was “frustrated” by the Biden administration’s continued efforts to extradite Assange. If he is convicted in the US, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing information related to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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