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“I am asking that the corresponding measures be implemented so that the UK government is asked to release Mr. Julian Assange and that Mexico offer him political asylum,” Obrador said at a press conference on Monday.
This comes after the British judiciary refused to hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States of America, accusing him of espionage for posting hundreds of thousands of secret US diplomatic documents through his website. , who can face a sentence of 175 years in prison.
Judge Vanessa Barritzer decided, in her ruling on Monday, that “it is unfair to extradite Assange” to the United States, for health reasons and because he may attempt suicide.
“His activities exceeded the press, as he obtained information through piracy,” added Barister, noting that there is no reason to believe that Assange’s human rights will be violated in the United States.
US prosecutors charged Assange, 49, with 17 counts of espionage and one count of computer misuse, with a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison.
In their closing arguments after the four-week hearing in the fall, lawyers representing the United States government said that Assange’s defense team had raised unacceptable and unrelated cases. They opposed the defense’s request that the court render a verdict based on the fact that the United States has committed torture, war crimes, assassinations, and violations of diplomatic and international law, and that the United States is an outlaw.
