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November 18, 2011, Friday
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JULIAN Assange's mother protested outside Australia's Parliament House in Canberra during US President Barack Obama's visit yesterday, demanding that Australia lobby the US against extraditing her son in a WikiLeaks investigation.
Scores of protesters in Australia's capital demanded the government show independence from US foreign policy.
Christine Assange accused Australian government leaders of being "star struck" by Obama, who received a standing ovation after addressing the Parliament on his first Australian visit as president.
Christine Assange said: "The looks on the faces of the Australian politicians were no different to teenagers at the airport waiting for Beyonce."
US prosecutors are investigating the release of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by WikiLeaks, and its founder Assange fears the US could extradite him to face charges there.
This week, the 40-year-old Australian citizen filed court papers in the UK in a last-ditch effort to stave off extradition from there to Sweden in a separate sex-crime investigation.
Christine Assange, a 60-year-old professional puppeteer from rural Queensland state, has written to Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd asking for the government to intervene on behalf of an Australian citizen to prevent her son's extradition to the US.
Rudd's office said in a statement yesterday that extraditions were not the foreign minister's responsibility. The attorney general's office has not commented on Christine Assange's request.
Scores of protesters in Australia's capital demanded the government show independence from US foreign policy.
Christine Assange accused Australian government leaders of being "star struck" by Obama, who received a standing ovation after addressing the Parliament on his first Australian visit as president.
Christine Assange said: "The looks on the faces of the Australian politicians were no different to teenagers at the airport waiting for Beyonce."
US prosecutors are investigating the release of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by WikiLeaks, and its founder Assange fears the US could extradite him to face charges there.
This week, the 40-year-old Australian citizen filed court papers in the UK in a last-ditch effort to stave off extradition from there to Sweden in a separate sex-crime investigation.
Christine Assange, a 60-year-old professional puppeteer from rural Queensland state, has written to Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd asking for the government to intervene on behalf of an Australian citizen to prevent her son's extradition to the US.
Rudd's office said in a statement yesterday that extraditions were not the foreign minister's responsibility. The attorney general's office has not commented on Christine Assange's request.
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