Julian Assange‘s father expressed his gratitude to Russian President Vladimir Putin in an October 20 interview with Russian state news agency Ria Novosti.
“Your President Putin in 2012 was the first head of state to defend Julian’s interests as a publisher and citizen at a time when Julian was accepting every defamatory lie and slander against him from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia,” he said. John Shipton, expressing his gratitude to Putin for playing this role.
Shipton, co-founder of Australia’s (now defunct) liberal party WikiLeaks, is in Russia for the annual summit of the emerging economies group BRICS taking place this week.
Stella Assange, the wife of the WikiLeaks founder, by contrast, attacked her father-in-law through X.
“My father-in-law John Shipton doesn’t talk about my husband. As anyone who has followed Julian already knows, Julian believes in extreme skepticism when it comes to all states with large intelligence domains [και] who have committed war crimes, engaged in censorship or tried to imprison or kill journalists,” he said.
My father-in-law John Shipton does not speak for my husband. As anyone who has followed Julian already knows, Julian believes in extreme skepticism when it comes to all states with large intelligence sectors, who have committed war crimes, engaged in censorship, or sought to… pic.twitter.com/GNy6e7KN95
— Stella Assange (@Stella_Assange) October 21, 2024
During the interview with Ria Novosti, Shipton also praised pro-Russian leaders such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fičo for “fighting for the quality of their states against the EU”.
Assange’s father echoed the Kremlin’s words, arguing that color revolutions* across the post-Soviet world had been caused by the West and that “very few people were aware of the density of propaganda in the United States.”
“We can clearly see what can be done in a state by controlling the information people receive through a series of color revolutions [που συμβαίνουν] next to Russia, Ukraine and it almost happened in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia,” Shipton said.
Shipton has previously been criticized for attending a pro-Moscow rally following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
Julian Assange returned to Australia in June after striking a deal with Washington that secured his freedom while forcing him to plead guilty to violating the US Espionage Act, ending a 14-year legal saga.
NOTE * The color revolution (sometimes referred to as the color revolution) is a term widely used by the global media to describe various related movements that developed in several countries in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans in the early 1990s 2000. The term has also been applied to various revolutions elsewhere, including in the Middle Eastwhole.
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