A bipartisan coalition of U.S. Representatives is asking President Joe Biden to pardon one of the world’s most hated — and beloved — information activists.
Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) wrote a letter to the President urging him to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to “send a clear message” that the outgoing administration will not target journalists.
The Australian WikiLeaks publisher pleaded guilty in June to charges related to publishing classified leaked U.S. military documents in 2010. He was sentenced to time served as part of a plea deal he reached with the U.S. Justice Department to end his overseas imprisonment in London. Assange had spent years in the Ecuadorian Embassy attempting to avoid extradition from the U.K. to the U.S.; however, he was apprehended and jailed in 2019.
“We write, first, to express our appreciation for your administration’s decision last spring to facilitate a resolution of the criminal case against publisher Julian Assange and to withdraw the related extradition request that had been pending in the United Kingdom,” the congressmen wrote to Biden. “This brought an end to Mr. Assange’s protracted detention and allowed him to reunite with his family and return to his home country of Australia.”
Before the 53-year-old struck a deal with the Biden justice department, Assange faced up to 175 years in jail on espionage and other charges, Fox News reported. […]
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