Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (former president of Brazil) champions the cause of Julian Assange.
"The British courts will soon be deciding the fate of the Australian journalist Julian Assange, a man who has been unjustly
charged as a criminal. Assange committed no crime. He is a champion of the cause of freedom. The UK will say whether it will accept or deny the
request for the extradition of Assange to the US, where he will face 18 charges brought against him by the government of that country. If he is extradited, Assange, 49, could be tried and sentenced to up to 175 years in prison, the equivalent of a life sentence. We must keep this outrage from happening. I call on all those committed to the cause of freedom of speech in every corner of the world to join me in an international effort to defend the innocence of Assange and demand his immediate release."
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...lian-assange-wikileaks-democracy-not-criminal
Assange is being scapegoated for providing evidence of American war crimes to various newspapers who carried the story yet no editors or reporters from
El País, Le Monde, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and
The New York Times is wanted by the Trump administration. These publications should be among the first to be defending Assange and not just reporting on what the English court is doing.