Australian lawmakers head to US to lobby against efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Assange

A group of Australian lawmakers say they will travel to Washington this month to lobby the United States to abandon its efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Before he was incarcerated, Assange took asylum for seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in an attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Sweden dropped that investigation in 2019 because so much time had elapsed.

“Julian should be immediately reunited with his wife and children,” Barns said. “That can only happen if the U.S. Department of Justice drops its extradition bid at once.” Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton said even Australians who didn’t support Assange’s actions believed he had suffered enough and should be set free.

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