Greetings to my esteemed friends on the InformationWar platform and the entire hive blockchain. It's another day and time to share with you news concerning Julian Assange and how the Australian lawmakers are making efforts for his release from prison. It's your friend @faquan, saying hello from this part of the world.
April 11 2023 marks four years since WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange was violently dragged from Ecuador’s London embassy and arrested by the British police. Since that time, Assange has been imprisoned, without interruption, in the maximum-security Belmarsh Prison, described by some as “Britain’s Guantanamo Bay.”
The essence of his arrest and imprisonment is to facilitate his movement to the United States for an extradition charges leveled against him by the US government. Extraditing Julian Assange to the US has been condemned by many human rights groups across the globe, which sees this as an avenue to stop press freedom.
His only “offense” is to have published true information as a journalist, exposing US-led war crimes. That includes US Army documents showing thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan that had been covered up by the American government and gross violations of international law, from US-NATO massacres to torture.
Efforts have been made to see the release and complete freedom of the wikileaks founder, Julian Assange and currently some Australian lawmakers are pressing for his release.
Australian lawmakers have met United States Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, urging her to help drop the pending extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and allow him to return to Australia.
The “Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group” said on Tuesday it informed Kennedy of “the widespread concern in Australia” about the continued detention of Assange, an Australian citizen.
The meeting comes before US President Joe Biden’s scheduled visit to Australia this month for the Quad leaders’ summit.
The lawmakers said that there are divergent views about Julian Assange but what matters is the fact that he is detained justly.
Assange is battling extradition from the United Kingdom to the US where he is wanted on criminal charges over the release of confidential military records and diplomatic cables in 2010. Washington says the release of the documents had put lives in danger.
Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, said he felt the meeting was an “important acknowledgement” by the US government that “Julian’s freedom is important to millions of Australians”.
I think Julian Assange freedom isn't just important to millions of Australians alone but for billions across the world who upholds press freedom and will be a means to posit freedom to other nations of the world.