The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as this Sunday for an finish to “the persecution” of journalist Julian Assange and his launch “as rapidly as doable”, earlier than a key listening to on his doable extradition to the USA.
“I hope the persecution in opposition to Assange ends and he regains the liberty he deserves as rapidly as doable,” the progressive president mentioned on his social networks.
Assange, founding father of WikiLeaks, will face a decisive trial this Monday on the Excessive Court docket in London, which is able to analyze whether or not to authorize his extradition to the USA or, quite the opposite, permit him to proceed interesting in the UK.
For the Brazilian head of state Assange “ought to have received the Pulitzer Prize for revealing the secrets and techniques of the highly effective.”
As an alternative, “he has been imprisoned for 5 years in England, condemned to the silence of your entire press, which ought to be defending” the liberty of the Australian activist “as a part of the battle for freedom of expression,” he criticized.
Since returning to energy on January 1, 2023, Lula has publicly come out in protection of Assange on a number of events.
In August of final 12 months, the then Minister of Info of Brazil, Paulo Pimenta, acquired John Shipton, father of Julian Assange, in Brasilia, the place he reiterated the “solidarity” of the Lula Authorities.
Assange is accused by the US of 18 alleged crimes of espionage and pc intrusion for the revelations of WikiLeaks, which in 2010 and 2011 uncovered abuses by the US Military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He has been in a London jail for 5 years, after Ecuador withdrew his political asylum and expelled him from its embassy within the British capital.
The Excessive Court docket of London will particularly analyze whether or not the three ensures supplied to the courtroom by the US Authorities relating to the remedy he’ll obtain in that nation are passable.
If he provides his approval, his extradition will be carried out, which the British Authorities already authorized in June 2022. EFE
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