Members of the Bundestag demand the immediate release of Julian Assange. 75 MPs sign a call calling for an end to the “political show trial”.
If Assange loses in the hearing, “it would be a fatal signal for courageous journalists all of Europe and breeding ground for the rampant anti-democratic backlash,” says one MP. The appeal was coordinated by the Green MP Max Lucks, Frank Schwabe from the SPD and the FDP MP Ulrich Lechte. Julian Assange, now 52, has been in London's Belmarsh maximum security prison since 2019.