Published: May 24, 2019
Former foreign minister says potential 175-year jail term ‘changes the game’
The former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr believes the prison sentence faced by Julian Assange if he were extradited to the US “changes the game” almost as much as a capital punishment charge, and could “test the patience” of its allies including Australia.
Prosectors in the US on Thursday announced 17 additional charges against the WikiLeaks founder for publishing hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables and files on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Assange faces a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison in the US if convicted of all the charges against him.
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