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struggle4progress

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Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:20 AM Aug 2012

Ozzie AG Nicola Roxon discusses Assange with Sky News

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PAUL KELLY: If we can just look at the issue of Julian Assange, what does the Australian Government do if the United States down the track goes for the option of extradition?

NICOLA ROXON: Well it really depends. One, we don't know if they're going to do that ... Mr Assange is entitled to all of that full protection in the way any other Australian citizen is, but he's actually not entitled to more than any other Australian citizen is either and that's the balance that I think is a little bit lost here ... Now no one is suggesting that England doesn't have a proper process that we need to fear that he isn't getting his day in court, in fact he's had many ... I don't see him as a hero or a terrorist ... I see him as someone who did something he believes in. We now have advice from our authorities that we don't think he's committed any crime against Australian law ... But, you know, the bottom line here is, if you travel overseas you are subject to the laws of other countries ...

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Julian Assange, access to and use of the courts
Sunday, 05 August 2012 14:38
http://www.international.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6587:julian-assange-access-to-and-use-of-the-courts&catid=80:politics&Itemid=120

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