Hundreds of people turned out this morning to Hyde Park in Sydney, Gadigal, to urge the Australian Government to do more for the release of ex-head of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who has been imprisoned at Belmarsh in the UK since 2019.
Speakers included former Greens senator, Scott Ludlam, human rights lawyer and Assange’s wife, Stella Moris, Assange’s father, John Shipton, human rights lawyer, Stephen Kenny, who defended David Hicks, and whistleblower, David McBride, who revealed alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.
Julian Assange, journalist and founder of Wikileaks, is currently imprisoned in London, awaiting extradition to the USA, where he could face many years of imprisonment for publishing material about potential US war crimes in Iraq. Stella Moris said that extradition would effectively be a death sentence for her husband if it were to proceed.
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