US President Joe Biden said he was considering Australia's request to drop charges against Julian Assange. Julian Assange's wife hailed the news as a "good sign" on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of his arrest.
“It looks like things could finally be moving in the right direction after five years in Belmarsh high security prison and 14 years since he lost his freedom,” his wife and lawyer Stella Assange responded in an interview with the BBC. Assange “is really not doing well, he is very worried”, underlined his wife, who has already highlighted a risk of suicide. On April 11, 2019, Julian Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He took refuge there in 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where he was the subject of rape charges since abandoned, but especially to the United States which accused him of computer hacking. He is prosecuted for having published since 2010 more than 700,000 confidential documents on American military and diplomatic activities, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.