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Mexican President Intervenes With Biden, Renews Asylum Offer For Julian Assange

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/07/18/mexican-president-renews-offer-to-grant-asylum-to-julian-assange-in-letter-to-biden/
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-07-18/mexican-president-renewed-asylum-offer-for-assange-in-letter-to-biden
https://tass.com/world/1475609
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/06/20/australian-pm-rejects-calls-to-intervene-in-assange-case/
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/07/01/julian-assange-appeals-uk-decision-to-extradite-him-to-the-us/
https://www.meaa.org/news/assange-extradition-decision-a-huge-relief-us-must-now-end-prosecution/
https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange



On Monday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he
delivered a letter to President Biden last week where he pleaded for
the US not to prosecute Julian Assange and renewed an offer to grant
asylum to the WikiLeaks founder.

Lopez Obrador said he explained in the letter that Assange "did not
cause anyone’s death, did not violate any human rights and that he
exercised his freedom, and that arresting him would mean a permanent
affront to freedom of expression."
Image source: AP

The Mexican leader said that he previously offered asylum to Assange
in a letter to President Trump at the end of his term and again at the
beginning of the Biden administration. Last month, Lopez Obrador
called Assange "the best journalist of our time."

Assange faces up to 175 years in prison for exposing US war crimes by
publishing documents he received from whistleblower and former Army
soldier Chelsea Manning. Lopez Obrador said earlier this month that if
Assange is sentenced to life in prison, there should be a campaign to
dismantle the statue of liberty.

"If they bring him to the US and sentence to the ultimate penalty, to
death in prison, then we will have to initiate a campaign for
dismantling the Statue of Liberty, presented by the French, because it
will no longer be a symbol of liberty," he said.

While Lopez Obrador is outspoken in his support for Assange, who is an
Australian citizen, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is not.
Albanese has rejected calls for him to demand that Washington drop its
extradition request.

Assange is currently being held in London’s Belmarsh Prison. British
Home Secretary Priti Patel has approved the extradition of Assange to
the US, and the WikiLeaks founder’s legal team lodged an appeal to her
ruling on July 1.

    President López Obrador of Mexico delivered letter on Assange to
Biden at their presidential meeting last week https://t.co/PN66oVi28F
    — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 19, 2022

Assange is indicted on 17 counts of espionage and one count of
conspiracy to commit a computer crime for his role in obtaining and
publishing the leaks provided by Manning. But Assange used standard
journalistic practices to obtain the information, something many human
rights groups, journalist organizations, and UN officials have pointed
out.