Australian parliamentarians have demanded the prime minister, Scott Morrison, intervene in the case of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, after the United States won a crucial appeal in its fight to extradite the WikiLeaks founder on espionage charges.
“The prime minister must get Assange home,” the Australian Greens leader, Adam Bandt, told Guardian Australia on Saturday.
“An Australian citizen is being prosecuted for publishing details of war crimes, yet our government sits on its hands and does nothing.”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images The independent MP Andrew Wilkie called on Morrison to “end this lunacy” and demand the US and UK release Assange.
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