Naman Ramachandran Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood led a protest in London on Tuesday in support of incarcerated WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.The 79-year-old Westwood, dressed in a canary yellow outfit, chanted slogans of protest such as “Free Julian Assange!” while being suspended in a giant birdcage outside London’s Old Bailey criminal court.
Westwood, a longtime supporter of Assange, stated that she wanted to get him “out of the cage.”Assange is currently fighting a battle to not get extradited to the U.S.
If he does, he faces 17 charges under the Espionage Act and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion after several hundred thousand classified documents were published over 2010 and 2011.
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