Australia

3582 readers

49 users here now

A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.

Before you post:

If you're posting anything related to:

The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
Politics, post it to Australian Politics
World News/Events, post it to World News
A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian

If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News

Rules

This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:

When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment

Banner Photo

Congratulations to @[email protected] who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition

Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

Moderation

Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.

Additionally, we have our instance admins: @[email protected] and @[email protected]

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

"Regardless of what you think of Mr Assange, justice is not being done in this case:" Federal MPs pass motion urging US and UK to allow Julian Assange's return to Australia (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The 52-year-old Assange is wanted in the US for espionage, and faces 18 charges related to the publication of a range of highly classified information relating to the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Next week, the High Court of Justice in the UK will hold its hearing into whether Mr Assange can appeal his extradition to the US.

Mr Assange has been held in London's high-security Belmarsh prison since 2019 and potentially faces up to 175 years in prison.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Next week, the High Court of Justice in the UK will hold its hearing into whether Mr Assange can appeal his extradition to the US.

The prime minister has previously labelled the punishment of Assange as disproportionate and called for the matter to come to a "conclusion", but this latest vote indicates his strongest position yet.

Mr Wilkie — who will fly to London for the second hearing next week — told the parliament that "we have just about run out of time to save Julian Assange".

"If Mr Assange is extradited to the US, it would be a direct attack on media freedom, as it would set a frightening precedent for all journalists that they, too, are at risk of being locked up just for doing their job."

After the vote was successful, Mr Wilkie said it marked an unprecedented show of political support for Assange by the parliament.

Last month, Assange's lawyer warned he was mentally unwell and would be at risk of suicide if his final appeal was rejected.

The original article contains 520 words, the summary contains 172 words. Saved 67%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!