You may have heard about the Belmarsh tribunal held in Washington yesterday on the continued detention of Julian Assange. I was curious about what the congressional US left has said so I looked it up. In 2019 Sanders said it was wrong for Trump to prosecute Assange. Since then I don’t know if he’s said anything else about the case, and he doesn’t seem to have made any statements mentioning Assange by name.
Tweets from the squad about Assange: Ilhan Omar – two tweets where she called his prosecution ‘indefensible’ AOC: 0 – in 2019 she said she was ‘concerned’ by the journalism ‘aspect’ of Assange’s case. Rashida Tlaib: 0 Cori Bush: 0 Jamaal Bowman: 0 Ayanna Pressley: 0 British MPs like Corbyn have been far more vocal.