“ALL eyes are on the Assange case,” China warned today as it said that “hope, fairness and justice will prevail” despite the efforts of Britain and the United States to jail the journalist.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin described the case against the Wikileaks founder as a “mirror” which “reflects the hypocrisy of the US and the UK on press freedom.”

“People are free to expose other countries but subject to severe punishment if they expose the US,” he said at a Beijing press conference.