{"id":17062,"date":"2022-06-19T03:53:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T03:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17062"},"modified":"2022-06-19T03:54:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T03:54:17","slug":"free-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/06\/19\/free-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens: Free Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Statement from Australian Greens Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Senator Jordon Steele-John.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFollowing The UK\u2019s decision that Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, the Australian Greens are once again calling for the immediate release of Australian journalist, Julian Assange.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExtradition to the United States, the country whose war crimes Julian Assange exposed, sets a dangerous precedent for press freedom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJulian Assange has been in Belmarsh Prison for three years, and has spent seven years in detention in the Ecuadorian Embassy. In those 10 years, his health has deteriorated and these ongoing proceedings are unjust, torturous, and must end.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Australian Greens are calling on Prime Minister Albanese to pick up the phone to the UK and US governments immediately to secure Assange\u2019s freedom.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from Australian Greens Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Senator Jordon Steele-John.&nbsp; \u201cFollowing The UK\u2019s decision that Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, the Australian Greens are once again calling for the immediate release of Australian journalist, Julian Assange.&nbsp; \u201cExtradition to the United States, the country whose war crimes Julian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/06\/19\/free-julian-assange\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens: Free Julian Assange&#8221;<\/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-17062","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\/17062","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=17062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17065,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062\/revisions\/17065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}