Poster by supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange MEXICO, Jan 3 Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has again offered asylum to Australian activist Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, who is in UK custody and preparing to be extradited to the United States on espionage charges. “We are ready to offer asylum to (Julian) Assange. We believe that the US government must act humanistically. Assange is sick, and it would be a manifestation of solidarity, brotherhood — to allow him to get asylum in the country in which Assange decides to live, including Mexico, «the politician said during a press conference published on the channel government on YouTube. The Mexican politician's statement came a year after he asked the country's Foreign Office to apply to the UK for release and political asylum for the Australian. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filed a Supreme Court appeal against his extradition decision at the end of December. USA. 
Trump explained why he did not pardon Assange and Snowden The hearing was limited to the question of whether the judge of the Central Criminal Court was wrong in her judgment that the possible extradition did not correspond to Assange's mental state. The court upheld the appeal and ruled that the case should be referred to the Westminster Magistrates' Court, instructing the district judge to refer the case to the Minister of State, who will decide whether Assange should be extradited to the United States. However, Assange remains in custody. Assange, accused in Sweden in 2010 of sexual harassment and rape, has been hiding since June 2012 at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, fearing extradition. On the morning of April 11, 2019, he was detained at the request of the United States. The extradition hearing began on May 2, 2019. Shortly thereafter, the US authorities announced that they had brought new charges against Assange for 17 counts of violations of the espionage and secret information disclosure laws. If extradited to the United States, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison.
