{"id":834051,"date":"2022-10-10T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=134238"},"modified":"2022-10-10T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T13:37:40","slug":"assange-supporters-surround-uk-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/10\/assange-supporters-surround-uk-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange Supporters Surround UK Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julian Assange supporters hold ‘Free Assange’ placards during the protest. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nSupporters of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange gathered outside the UK Parliament in London on Saturday to protest his impending extradition to the US, where he faces espionage charges that carry a prison sentence of up to 175 years.<\/p>\n

Videos posted on social media show hundreds of people, including former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, having formed a human chain that spanned the parliament\u2019s perimeter and wound across the nearby Westminster Bridge to the other side of the Thames River.<\/p>\n

The protesters held signs reading \u2018Free Assange, No Extradition,\u2019 \u2018Journalism is not a crime’ and ‘Prosecute war crimes, not Assange‘.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stella Assange, the journalist\u2019s wife, also participated in the demonstration. She said that the UK government should communicate with the US authorities to end the extradition request, which was filed in 2019.<\/p>\n

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