Two lone protesters walk down George Street in Sydney’s CBD, carrying a sign and a speaker blasting out the song, “Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Old Oak Tree”, to remind pedestrians of the current trial in London seeking to extradite Julian Assange to the USA on charges of espionage.
On Wednesday, journalist Daniel Ellsberg, the man who in 1971 famously leaked the Pentagon Papers revealing widespread American political corruption during the Vietnam War, defended Assange in court, equating some of the US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan exposed by Wikileaks to war crimes.
If Assange is extradited to the USA, he could face a sentence of up to 175 years of imprisonment.
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