The Prime Minister of Australia affirmed on Monday that he will act through diplomatic channels in the face of the accusations against the Australian Julian Assange in the United States and confirmed previous statements in which he questioned the objective of this legal action.
At a time when internal pressure is growing on him to intervene in the case of the founder of WikiLeaksPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said he stood by comments he made on the matter last year when he was in opposition.
“I don’t understand what the current legal action against Assange is for,” Albanese said at the time.
Now the leader says “he intends to lead a government that engages appropriately and diplomatically with our allies” to deal with the case.
Assange’s wife, Stella Assange, told radio on Monday ABC that he is aware that the Albanian government is discussing the case of the Wikileaks founder with the US administration of the president Joe Bidencalling the news “extraordinarily welcome.”
The British government signed last Friday the extradition decree of Assange to the United States, where he wants to be tried for a massive leak of confidential documents.
The United States wants to try Assange for espionage and could sentence him to up to 175 years in prison if he is found guilty of publishing on WikiLeaks beginning in 2010 some 700,000 secret US military and diplomatic documents, mostly on Iraq and Afghanistan.
