Thu 15 September 2022:
Mexican officials honored Julian Assange’s family on Wednesday in their most recent demonstration of support for the WikiLeaks founder, who is charged with spying by the US, AFP reported.
Mayor of Mexico City Claudia Sheinbaum referred to Assange as a “distinguished guest” and gave him and his brother Gabriel a symbolic key to the city.
Assange embodies the fight of “David versus Goliath,” said a spokesman for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, hailing the Australian publisher’s fight for “freedom of expression.”
Assange’s family has also been invited to join the special guests at Mexico’s Independence Day celebrations this week.
Lopez Obrador has offered asylum to Assange, 51, who is in a high-security prison in Britain and fighting extradition to the United States.
The left-wing leader claimed in July that he had pleaded Assange’s cause to US President Joe Biden, adamant that the WikiLeaks founder had committed no serious crime.
If found guilty of breaking the US Espionage Act by publishing military and diplomatic records relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in 2010, Assange could spend decades behind bars.
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