The Greens have called on the Morrison Government and Labor to show leadership on stopping the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens senator for lutruwita\/Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Espionage Act wasn\u2019t intended to be used against publishers. We must support press freedoms and those who hold the powerful to account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJulian Assange\u2019s prosecution has always been political. It needs political intervention of the highest order from our government to get justice for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe PM could end this today by picking up the bloody phone to Boris Johnson this afternoon and demanding justice – it\u2019s that easy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government is obligated to protect its citizens and right now Julian needs its help, his life at stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis needs to an election issue. By backing Julian\u2019s right of appeal and fight for justice both the Liberal and Labor parties could show true leadership on free speech, journalism, and democracy at a time when public trust in these matters is at an all-time low.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have called on the Morrison Government and Labor to show leadership on stopping the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges. Greens senator for lutruwita\/Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0 \u201cThe Espionage Act wasn\u2019t intended to be used against publishers. We must support press freedoms and those who hold the … Continue reading “Greens: Free Assange now”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16246,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245\/revisions\/16246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}