Julian Assange's European defense team says it will try to seek asylum in France for the Wikileaks founder, whose full hearings for extradition to the United States on spying charges start next week.
PARIS — Julian Assange's European defense team said Thursday it will try to seek asylum in France for the Wikileaks founder, whose full hearings forFrench team member Eric Dupont-Moretti said Assange's case placed at stake"the fate and the status of all journalists."
He said the team considered the"the situation is sufficiently serious that our duty is to talk about it" with French President Emmanuel Macron. Dupont-Moretti was one of a team of lawyers lined up at a Paris news conference to explain why they view the case against Assange as unfair, citing his poor health and alleged violations of his rights while in jail in London.
French members of the team said they have been working on a “concrete demand” for Macron to grant Assange asylum in France, where he has children and where Wikileaks was present at its founding.Sign Up
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