Govt to give consular support to Assange
The Australian government will provide WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with consular advice, Foreign Minister Marise Payne says.
Assange was arrested within the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday by officers from Scotland Yard, with seven officers hauling the Australian out of the building.
He was due to in Westminster Magistrates Court within hours.
Ms Payne said she was confident of the British legal process and that Australian officials would travel to the UK to meet with Assange.
"Mr Assange will continue to receive the usual consular support from the Australian government. Consular officers will seek to visit Mr Assange at his place of detention," she said.
"I am confident, as the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt publicly confirmed in July 2018, that Mr Assange will receive due process in the legal proceedings he faces in the United Kingdom."
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