Mexico wants to offer Julian Assange asylum
The country’s president calls Assange's detention ‘torture’ and says WikiLeaks documents had showed the world’s ‘authoritarian’ workings
04 January 2021 - 18:47
Mexico City — Mexico’s government is ready to offer political asylum to Julian Assange and supports the decision of a British judge to deny extradition of the WikiLeaks founder to the US, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said.
“I’m going to ask the foreign minister ... to ask the government of the UK about the possibility of letting Mr Assange be freed and for Mexico to offer political asylum,” López Obrador told a regular news conference...
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