Julian Assange’s family urge Australian PM Anthony Albanese to intervene before US extradition

John and Gabriel Shipton say they're frustrated at Australian PM for lack of progress in WikiLeaks founder's case since Labor was elected

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Julian Assange's family have said the Albanese government needs to intervene in the case before he is extradited to the US, saying it would effectively be a death sentence" for the WikiLeaks founder if there was no intervention.

The plight of Assange, who is being held in UK's Belmarsh prison pending an appeal against his extradition to the US, has been raised with the new US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, by Assange's Australian solicitor, Stephen Kenny.