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Australian journalists' union condemns Assange's extradition to the United States
Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor of WikiLeaks, right, and barrister Jennifer Robinson speak to the media outside Westminster magistrates court where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was appearing in London, yesterday

AUSTRALIA’S journalists’ union called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the British government to oppose the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States today.

Yesterday Mr Assange, an Australian citizen, was dragged out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London after the President Lenin Moreno’s government revoked the Australian journalist’s asylum-seeker status. 

He had spent the past seven years in the building on the grounds that if he was detained in Britain he would be extradited to the US and jailed as a spy in retaliation for Wikileaks’ exposure of Iraq War logs and infamous Collatoral Murder footage of a brutal 2007 helicopter air strike.

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