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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Amlo) says the Statue of Liberty should be torn down if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is sentenced in the United States. 

The journalist remains behind bars in Britain’s high-security Belmarsh Prison although he has appealed against last Friday’s decision by Home Secretary Priti Patel that he can face trial in the US. 

Mr Assange faces 175 years in prison there under the draconian Espionage Act after he revealed war crimes committed by Washington in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

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