WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, UK, in 2019 DPA via Europa Press / Europa Press
The Government of Mexico will offer political asylum to Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, as said by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador this Monday.
"I am going to ask the Secretary of Foreign Relations to do the corresponding procedures so that the Government of the United Kingdom is requested the possibility that Mr. Assange be released and that Mexico offers him political asylum," he reported during the morning press conference hours after the British justice rejected the
hacker's
extradition
to the United States, where he would face sentences of up to 175 years in prison.
López Obrador has celebrated the decision of the British magistrate of the Central Criminal Court of London Vanessa Baraitser, who this Monday concluded that the co-founder of Wikileaks should not be extradited to the United States and that "the risk that Assange would commit suicide, if allowed extradition was high ”.
The president has assured that his Administration will undertake to give Assange "protection" and will assume responsibility for "not intervening in the political affairs of any country."
“I think it is a triumph of justice.
I am glad that England acts in this way because Assange is a journalist and deserves a chance.
I am in favor of being pardoned ”, he pointed out.
The Mexican president had already made his position clear in the previous days: "I wish that he be forgiven and released."
"I do not know if he has recognized that he acted against the rules and against a political system, but at the time these cables showed how the world system works in its authoritarian nature," he added on Friday.
López Obrador remains firm in his defense of Assange in large part because the United States government has been investigating the president since 2006, according to Wikileaks.
One of the first cables collects information on the names that López Obrador was managing then to form his Cabinet: Rogelio Ramírez de la O, Juan Ramón de la Fuente and José María Pérez Gay.
"None of the three are radicals," ends the comment of the US security agency, after an exhaustive review of the three men.
Later, the US Government pays close attention to the massive protest that López Obrador called in mid-July 2006 in the Zócalo, after losing the elections to Felipe Calderón, to denounce an alleged electoral fraud and request a recount of votes .
“According to a source, López Obrador plans to continue the protests until the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power carries out a full count at the national level.
She adds that if the TEPJF does not order such a recount, the country runs the risk of becoming ungovernable ", can be read in the leaked cable, dated July 18, 2006." The real question is what is AMLO's next move , because it seems clear that he will not be happy with any result that leaves Calderón as the winner ”, signs agent Alan Metlzer.
Assange is imprisoned in a London jail and is accused by the American justice of 18 crimes of espionage and computer intrusion.
Washington accuses him of several crimes against National Security for the publication of confidential documents about the military intervention of the United States and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Swedish authorities had demanded the delivery of the fugitive, accused of several crimes of rape and sexual abuse against two women who collaborated in a Wikileaks event in Stockholm two years earlier.
The
hacker
had obtained diplomatic protection from the Government of Ecuador, then chaired by Rafael Correa, and was kept locked up for seven years in the premises of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.