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Assange makes speech at French far-left meeting
Published: 27 Aug 2012 08:58 GMT+02:00 | Print version
Updated: 27 Aug 2012 08:58 GMT+02:00
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a guest appearance by telephone during a meeting held by ex presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon this weekend.
The Front de Gauche political party welcomed Assange to his first political appearance in France by phone from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been for the past two months.
“France has been a very important country for WikiLeaks. A part of its press has been by our side,” he said.
Assange was unable to finish his speech due to the phone line cutting off, apparently a result of power failure in the embassy.
The Ecuadorian Foreign Minister tweeted on August 22 that he had received a phone call from Melenchon on the subject of Assange’s political safety.
Melenchon reportedly asked “that the left government in France puts pressure on the left government in Ecuador so that Julian Assange can have political asylum there.”
“We say to the British government: you liberated Pinochet, you let him go. So you can very well let Julian Assange go!”
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Julian Assange for the Nobel prize for freedom of the press:
www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Julian_Assange_for_Nobel_prize_Freedom_of_the_Press/
Lets see how "Noble" the Norwegians and their righteous Swede neighbors are or claim to be, since they offered Obama the Nobel peace prize!