by Filip Timotija at The Hill
An Australian delegation visited Washington, D.C. this week to push the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to cease its attempts to extradite and imprison WikiLeaks publisher and Australian national Julian Assange.
The group of lawmakers, from across the Labor, Liberal, Greens and National parties, lobbied U.S. officials on Wednesday to abandon their attempt to extradite Assange from a British prison to the U.S., where he could face a 175-year sentence.
“Throughout the day, we’ve had several meetings and we’re not going to go into the details of those meetings, But I can say that they’ve all been useful meetings, Zappia said. “They’ve enabled us as representatives of both the parliament and the Australian people to make and put our case very clearly about the fact that the Julian Assange pursuit and detention and charges should be dropped and should come to an end.”
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