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Family members of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held a series of protests and press conferences this week during a visit to Mexico City.
John and Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s father and brother, accepted an invitation from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to attend Mexico's annual Independence Day military parade on Friday.
“Your president — which everybody affectionately calls AMLO — we acknowledge his courage and understanding,” said John Shipton to a packed lecture hall of Assange’s supporters at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) Tuesday.
“That he has begun by saying to the United States that Julian must be free and is welcome in Mexico — this, to us, is pure gold,” he said.
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I have serious doubts that this man will ever be free.
John and Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s father and brother, accepted an invitation from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to attend Mexico's annual Independence Day military parade on Friday.
“Your president — which everybody affectionately calls AMLO — we acknowledge his courage and understanding,” said John Shipton to a packed lecture hall of Assange’s supporters at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) Tuesday.
“That he has begun by saying to the United States that Julian must be free and is welcome in Mexico — this, to us, is pure gold,” he said.
Julian Assange family campaigns for his release while in Mexico with López Obrador
President López Obrador has offered asylum to Assange to show his disapproval of the U.S. extradition order against the WikiLeaks founder. But the president’s own treatment of the press in Mexico may belie his motives.
www.courthousenews.com
I have serious doubts that this man will ever be free.
