WASHINGTON, April 11 — US President Joe Biden said yesterday he was “considering” a request by Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on...
Australian citizen Assange, 52, has been indicted by the US government over his role in the 2010 leaking of a huge trove of classified documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. — AFP picWASHINGTON, April 11 — US President Joe Biden said yesterday he was “considering” a request by Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on espionage charges.
Biden, who took the question while walking with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to a meeting in the Oval Office, did not elaborate.Australian citizen Assange, 52, has been indicted by the US government over his role in the 2010 leaking of a huge trove of classified documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.In response to Biden’s comments, Assange’s wife Stella said on social platform X: “Do the right thing. Drop the charges.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson yesterday called for “a political solution” to Assange’s plight, as supporters rallied in central London on the eve of the fifth anniversary of his arrest.
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