“This is a progressive city that has always stood for great freedoms,” Sheinbaum said.
On behalf of Assange, his father John Shipton received recognition as a distinguished guest for the founder of Wikileaks.
“The fact of having received the keys to Mexico City is as if Mexico City were a mother who takes her children to protect them,” he said.
If extradited to the United States, Assange is expected to receive a sentence of 175 years in prison for espionage charges and, according to the organization Amnesty International, this may put him at risk of human rights violations, such as detention conditions. amounting to torture or ill-treatment.
We are joined by John Shipton and Gabriel Shipton, father and brother of Julian Assange. In the City we will always stand in solidarity with just causes, above all with freedom of expression, a fundamental right that should not be condemned or persecuted. |?#Live https://t.co/BxaFxs2H0p
— Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum (@Claudiashein)
September 14, 2022
Assange is persecuted for revealing information about the systemic use of torture in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by the US government, as well as about the so-called “war on drug trafficking” in Mexico during Felipe Calderón’s six-year term, he recalled. Jenaro Villamil, president of the Public Broadcasting System of the Mexican State.
“The attitude of the large media and journalistic consortiums to turn their backs on Julian Assange and kneel to the threat of the United States is grotesque, and here I must say, including several public media of great international prestige such as the BBC,” Villamil said.
