The president of the United States, Joe Biden, assured this Wednesday that he is considering ending the legal process against the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange.
"We are considering it," Biden said in statements to the press at the White House when asked about the request that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been making for months to close the case against Assange.
In November 2023, Albanese said he had conveyed to US representatives his request for the case against the WikiLeaks founder to be closed and, in February of this year, he backed a motion in the Australian Parliament to demand an end to the legal process.
Assange, 52, faces more than 18 criminal charges for crimes against the US Espionage Act and risks being sentenced to up to 175 years in prison.
The Australian journalist has been detained in the high-security Berlmarsh prison (United Kingdom) since in 2019 the Ecuadorian embassy in London withdrew the asylum it granted him in 2012.
