The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has called on Saturday for an end to the «unjust persecution» of the founder of the Wikileaks organization, Julian Assange, who has been held in custody in a maximum security prison in the United Kingdom since April 2019.
«Today we received representatives of Wikileaks. We agree that one of the foundations of democracy is not to condemn the right to tell the truth, as is unfortunately the case with journalist Julian Assange. We hope that his unjust persecution will soon end,» the Bolivian president said in his message on social networks.
Assange is a journalist, activist and founder of Wikileaks, a portal that since 2006 has been responsible for leaking documents classified as confidential material in which numerous human rights violations have been disclosed.
As detailed by the organization in a recently released statement, Assange «has been charged in the United States for disseminating information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and torture programs. He faces up to 175 years in prison».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
