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Overseas Minister Penny Wong has referred to as for the extradition case towards Julian Assange to return to an finish.
Senator Wong mentioned the authorized case and imprisonment of the WikiLeaks co-founder has been happening for too lengthy.
Mr Assange has been imprisoned within the UK for greater than 4 years and faces extradition to the US on espionage prices.
Appeals to cease his extradition are at present earlier than the UK courts.
Talking on the Nationwide Press Membership, Senator Wong mentioned the federal government would proceed to press for Mr Assange’s launch.
“There are clearly limits to what you are able to do when it comes to one other nation’s authorized proceedings and we aren’t part of these proceedings,” she mentioned.
“We can’t intervene in these proceedings simply because the UK and US can’t intervene in our authorized proceedings.”
Australian excessive commissioner to the UK Stephen Smith visited Mr Assange in Belmarsh Jail earlier in April, the primary time an Australian official had visited him within the facility since his arrest.
The international minister mentioned it could be good to proceed consular help to the Australian whereas he stays in jail.
“A few of Mr Assange’s advocates have been elevating, rightly, whether or not or not the circumstances in Belmarsh are applicable,” Senator Wong mentioned.
“That’s one thing I can be asking my excessive commissioner to interact about.”
Final week, nearly 50 Australian MPs and senators signed a letter to US Legal professional-Common Merrick Garland urging him to finish the pursuit of the WikiLeaks co-founder.
Advocates have urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to boost the problem of Mr Assange throughout upcoming conferences with US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
– AAP
