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Mexican President Andres Manuela Lopez Obrador said the Statue of Liberty and what the effigy stands for, has lost all meaning. He said this in regards to the Julian Assange conviction for the WikiLeaks case and exposing Hillary Clinton.
WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It also exposed undocumented civilian deaths while she was head of the US State Department.
President Obrador said, “A few days ago I released a New York Times report talking about the super cop, Genaro García Luna, and it is the New York Times, and the Financial Times does the same, and The Wall Street Journal, and we are all talking Of this Assange thing, isn’t it worthwhile for the New York Times to deal with the matter, El País and to convene a meeting of the most important press in the world to exhort, request, call, so that a pardon be granted to Assange?”
“If they don’t do it, they will be tarnished and we will have to start the campaign that if they take him to the US, and sentence him to the maximum sentence and die in prison, they will have to dismantle the Statue of Liberty that the French delivered and that is in New York because it is no longer a symbol of freedom”, launched the head of the Mexican Republic.
British Home Secretary, Priti Patel, just approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face criminal charges over WikiLeaks. Assange is currently being held in the U.K and he faces 18 federal counts related to publishing classified documents and reports.
President Obrador said that he will ask President Biden to review the case of the Australian journalist.
“I want to state that I am going to ask President Biden to address this matter, I am aware that it goes against the severe hardliners that exist in the United States as in all countries, but humanism must also prevail,” he said.
The Raging Patriot recently reported that Marjorie Taylor Greene was in favor of pardoning Julian Assange and Edward Snowden:
“I never asked for a pardon for myself, but I am asking for Edward Snowden and Julian Assange to be pardoned,” Greene wrote. “The First Amendment is important for many reasons.”
Assange has two weeks to appeal the order of his extradition.
“This is disappointing news that should concern anyone who cares about the First Amendment and the right to publish,” Assange’s attorney, Barry Pollack, said. “The decision will be appealed.”
The BBC reported:
If convicted in the US, Mr. Assange, 50, faces a possible penalty of up to 175 years in jail, his lawyers have said. However, the US government said the sentence was more likely to be between four and six years.
Mr. Assange faces an 18-count indictment from the US government, accusing him of conspiring to hack into US military databases to acquire sensitive secret information relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which was then published on the Wikileaks website.
He says the information exposed abuses by the US military.
But US prosecutors say the leaks of classified material endangered lives, and so the US sought his extradition from the UK.
