Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador said on Monday that he had left a letter to his American counterpart. Joe Bidento demand the rehabilitation of Australian journalist Julian Assange, whom the US authorities are trying to prosecute for exposing his WikiLeaks portal.
“I left a letter to the president about Julian Assangeexplaining that he did not commit any serious crime, Assangehe didn’t cause anyone’s death, he didn’t violate any human rights, and he took advantage of his freedom, and stopping him, well, would mean a permanent affront to freedom of speech,” the president said during the morning’s press conference.
He said that in a letter he left to the US president during a bilateral meeting last Tuesday in Washington, he explained that Mexico had offered protection and asylum to the Australian journalist.
However, he indicated that he had not yet received a response to the letter and indicated that he had to be respectful.
“I have to wait until it is analyzed and a time is set,” he stressed.
Lopez Obrador repeatedly expressed his support Julian Assange.
Back in January last year, his government revealed the contents of a letter sent in 2020 to then US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) asking him to intercede for an Australian communicator.
While in January 2021 Lopez Obrador offered political asylum to the founder Wikileaks.
Julian Assange remains in jail
At the beginning of this month, Assange lodged an application with the High Court in London to challenge his extradition to USAwhich requires him to try him for the crimes of espionage.
The 51-year-old activist remains in Belmarsh High Security Prison in London while his appeal against his extradition to the United States is being considered.
US authorities charge Aussie with 20 crimes for leaking information and documents WikiLeaksin which he exposed the abuses committed by US forces during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Between 2012 and 2019 Assange He took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London until, in April of that year, he was arrested on an extradition warrant for USAafter the government of this Latin American country deprived him of the status of political asylum.
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