UPDATE, June 21: MEAA Media Federal President Karen Percy has written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong urging them to press the United States to drop espionage charges against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Read the letter here. The UK Government’s decision to uphold the application by the US Department of Justice […]
Australia must step up diplomatic efforts to encourage the US government to drop its bid to extradite Julian Assange who has now been imprisoned for three years.
MEAA, the union for Australian journalists, welcomes today’s decision by a British judge to prevent the extradition to the United States of our member Julian Assange and calls on the US government to now drop his prosecution.
MEAA, the union for Australian journalists, welcomes today’s decision by a British judge to prevent the extradition to the United States of our member Julian Assange and calls on the US government to now drop his prosecution.
The editor in chief and spokesman for WikiLeaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson, visited Australia in December to lobby journalists and policitians to support Julian Assange in his fight against extradition to the US on espionage charges.
