In London, Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the lack of efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent four years in a U.K. prison. Lula said he forgot to discuss the matter with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
May 6, 2023 GMTBritain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right greets the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva during their meeting inside 10 Downing Street London, Friday, May 5, 2023. Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right greets the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva during their meeting inside 10 Downing Street London, Friday, May 5, 2023.
RIO DE JANEIRO — After attending the coronation of King Charles III in London, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison. “It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one state against another is arrested, condemned to die in jail and we do nothing to free him. It’s a crazy thing,” Lula told reporters. “We talk about freedom of expression; the guy is in prison because he denounced wrongdoing. And the press doesn’t do anything in defense of this journalist. I can’t understand it.”
Lula offered the remarks in response to a question about Assange, who is a native Australian. He said he had forgotten to discuss the matter with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, but that he would write to him upon returning to Brazil. Assange has been fighting extradition to the United States, and Lula’s comments come at a moment that he has shown little reluctance to voice his differences of opinion with Washington regarding geopolitical matters, particularly in his opposition to providing arms to
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