Australian Labor leader privately criticises Assange's imprisonment, but publicly silent
Australian Labor leader criticises Assange’s imprisonment, privately At a closed-door meeting of his party’s parliamentary caucus last Tuesday, federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese was reportedly asked by a colleague to give his opinion on the ongoing incarceration of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who is detained in London’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison. “Enough is enough,” Albanese is said to have responded. “I don’t have sympathy for many of his actions, but essentially I can’t see what is served by keeping him incarcerated.” The comments were immediately leaked...
Source: wsws.org