The prime minister is meeting with high-level US officials in Brisbane. Supporters of Julian Assange are urging Albanese to raise the issue of the WikiLeaks founder's detention this weekend.
The United States is seeking to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange over the leak of thousands of documents in 2010 about US operations in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.US ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy says the case of Julian Assange has been raised at the highest level.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have held talks in Brisbane as part of the first AUSMIN meeting hosted by Australia since 2019.Assange has been held in prison in London since 2019, after thousands of documents were leaked in 2010 about US operations in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
"Each day the US administration ignores the Australian public on Julian's freedom it becomes clearer and clearer Australia's true standing in the alliance," he said.US ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy said she understood the concerns raised by Assange supporters.
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