Biden, who made his support of a free press part of his campaign, has faced allegations of hypocrisy by critics for continuing to seek Assange's imprisonment.
The charges ignited a firestorm of debate in the U.S. that rages to this day about the protections afforded whistleblowers claiming to act in the public interest and the ethics of publishing classified documents, an act U.S. officials at the time claimed undermined their actions abroad.
Night Carnival participants assemble at Lincoln's Inn Fields on February 11, 2023, in London, England. Julian Assange faces a potential 175-year sentence if extradited to the U.S. for his publishing work. All major free speech and human rights organizations, including Amnesty, Reporters Without Borders, National Union of Journalists, Big Brother Watch and more oppose his extradition, which they say is a"threat to press freedom around the globe.
"We remain optimistic that we will prevail and that Julian will not be extradited to the United States where he faces charges that could result in him spending the rest of his life in a maximum security prison for publishing true information that revealed war crimes committed by the U.S. government," she wrote onOn Tuesday next week my husband Julian Assange will make a renewed application for appeal to the High Court.
While Biden is likely to stay the course on prosecution—potentially resulting in a sentence of as few as four years in federal prison, according to previous estimates from the U.S. Department of Justice—others have made pardoning Assange a key facet of their platforms for higher office, seeking to capitalize on his symbolic significance in continuing debates over the unsavory legacy of U.S. foreign policy.
Biden, who made his support of a free press part of his campaign, has faced allegations of hypocrisy by critics for continuing to seek the imprisonment of an individual who published unsavory content about U.S. actions abroad.
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