Julian Assange: hero or villain? with Peter Greste

Peter Greste – the journalist who spent more than a year locked up in an Egyptian prison – has said the Australian government took too long to finally call for the release and return of Julian Assange. Assange took his final appeal against extradition to the United States to the UK’s highest court this week – a last bid to stop him being sent across the Atlantic to face espionage charges. Those charges stem from the Wikileaks releases of hundreds of thousands of US military documents in 2010 and 2011. And since then, Assange has fought off allegations that he put lives at risk with his online leaks, alongside allegations of sexual assault against two women in Sweden. The Swedish allegations fell away as Assange hid away in Ecuador’s embassy in London. But the US have never gone away, and this week argued that Assange should be sent to their country to face their justice system. Greste joins host Tim Clarke to discuss the many intricacies of this long-running case.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.