Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, when is enough enough? Julian Assange has suffered so much, and the judge in the UK case has basically said that extradition to the US is effectively a death sentence. The UN's special rapporteur on torture has said that the failure of the judgement to denounce and redress the persecution and torture of Mr Assange 'leaves fully intact the intended intimidating effect on journalists and whistleblowers'. So is it the Australian government's position that extraditing Julian Assange to the US is acceptable? (Time expired)