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LONDON, May 17.Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is facing extradition to the United States, have gathered outside the UK Interior Ministry building demanding his release, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The police are on duty. Assange's wife Stella, who came to the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with two children, appealed from the rostrum to the head of the department, the entire ministry and the British government as a whole with a call to release the founder of WikiLeaks. «They must do the right thing — they must block the extradition. This is a political matter, and it has a political solution,» she said. In turn, Labor MP Richard Bergon stressed that Assange's «political extradition» should not be allowed, and if The Interior Ministry will decide on this, the process will threaten freedom of the press and serve as a warning to anyone exposing war crimes.The ex-judge of the ECHR called the sentence threatening Assange in the US draconianOn Tuesday, Assange's defense filed a motion with the head of the UK Home Office Priti Patel to block his extradition to the US. The Westminster Magistrates Court in London had previously issued a warrant to send Assange to the US, where he faces 175 years in prison. The final decision must be made by the head of the British Home Office. Assange became famous in 2006 in connection with his work on the WikiLeaks website, which was founded to publish classified documents. In 2010, the portal made public a secret video of the US military, which showed how at least 18 civilians were killed after an American helicopter attack in Baghdad in 2007. In 2010, the site also began publishing 250,000 US diplomatic documents. Assange, accused in Sweden in 2010 of sexual harassment and rape, has been hiding since June 2012 in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fearing extradition. On the morning of April 11, 2019, he was detained at the request of the United States. Extradition hearings began on May 2, 2019. Shortly thereafter, Washington announced new charges against Assange for 17 counts of violating the law on espionage and disclosing classified information. issued an extradition order for Assange