He certainly should be freed. He has done nothing wrong unless truth telling is wrong.

Julian Assange should NOT be freed; nor should he be allowed to serve whatever sentence he gets in Australia. That our generally pussifed government is offering him no support speaks volumes, as does the Biden government's continuing pursuit of Assange, just as the Trump administration did. The Yankee Trump-haters should ponder on that. Bet they don't lambast Biden as they did Trump. As for Australians, we shouldn't get shirty over the punishment of someone who has brought shame on our country.

Peter Bowden does not decide what the people of the US and the rest of the world had the right to know - fortunately!

Let us look at the following scenario:

An Australian lady, while strip-dancing in a Thai nightclub, speaks dirtily of the prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h).
Saudi government demands her extradition on the grounds of breaking Saudia's modesty laws.
She has broken neither Australian nor Thai law.
She has never been to Saudi Arabia.

Would Australia agree for Thailand to extradite her to Saudi Arabia?

Obviously not!

So what's the difference?

When it comes to America we have no choice, we depend on them, we especially need their nukes to defend us against Chinese attack/invasion. We do not similarly depend on Saudi Arabia, that's the difference, the whole difference!

ttn: As for Australians, we shouldn't get shirty over the punishment of someone who has brought shame on our country.

If a Country does something shameful, & someone exposes that thing, by you reckoning, the person that exposed the Shameful thing the Country did is a Criminal.

Have I got that right?

How can an Australian citizen who was probably not even living in the US at the time that he committed this bogus "crime" be rightly accused with breaking any American laws, especially "treason".

Julian Assange should be allowed to return home to
Australia. I can't understand why he's being held in
Britain and what the crime is that he's been charged
with to still be held in custody.

As for the US and their demands - that should
be up to our PM to decide whether he will oblige the
US or not. Assange is an Australian citizen and he
is entitled to the protection that his government
should provide. He has done nothing wrong - except tell
the truth that was given to him by an American.

Is that American in jail?