The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on the social network X celebrated the news and said that “at least in this case, the Statue of Liberty did not remain an empty symbol; “She is alive and happy like millions in the world.”
On the same platform, his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, conveyed congratulations to Assange and considered both his imprisonment and torture an attack against press freedom on a global scale.
“Denouncing the massacre of civilians in Iraq by the United States’ war action was their crime, now the massacre is repeated in Gaza,” he stated when inviting the reporter and his wife Stella to visit the South American nation.
Meanwhile, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, replicated the AssangeLibre label and assured that the long and cruel punishment imposed on the Australian for denouncing Washington will remain in the memory of the people.
Other political personalities such as the elected president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and even Robert F. Kennedy Jr, independent candidate for the US presidency, among others in the rest of the world, also took to social networks to welcome the release of the intellectual.
Julian Assange was released this Monday and traveled to his native Australia following an agreement with the United States government to plead guilty to a serious crime under the Espionage Act.
The journalist, who spent the last five years of his life in a British prison, thus put an end to a legal soap opera that began when he was held responsible for revealing secrets about the Pentagon’s military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“He was granted bail by the High Court in London and released at Stansted Airport in the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the United Kingdom,” WikiLeaks announced.
The site emphasized that the departure of its founder is the result of a global campaign that involved grassroots organizers, defenders of press freedom, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations.
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