Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is currently being held in a British jail after an almost 7-year period of living in the Ecuadorian embassy as he fights to prevent his extradition to the US on the basis that he leaked confidential US military caches and documents.
Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has issued a statement of solidarity with detained Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, saying that liberating Assange from incarceration is a “just cause”.
Obrador told a press conference that documents published by WikiLeaks proved the corrupt workings of the previous Mexican political order and its true “authoritarian” nature.
The president also called for Assange to be “forgiven and released”.
“I hope that this is taken into consideration and he is freed and he is no longer tortured” he said during the conference.
“There are cables that came to light from when we were in opposition and they spoke about our struggle and I can corroborate that they are true, that is to say what is in them was accurate, they revealed illegal relationships, illegitimate acts, violations of sovereignty, contrary to democracy, against freedoms, this is what is in there”.
Obrador expressed his “solidarity” and his wish to see Assange “pardoned and that it is considered, that he is liberated he could offer an apology”.
“Liberating him will be a very just cause for human rights, it will be an act of humility on the part of the authority that has to decide on the…
