Brazil leader backs Assange freedom

Brazil’s president-elect has stressed his ongoing support for the campaign to free Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva met Kristinn Hrafnsson, Wikileaks’ editor-in-chief, and Joseph Farrell, a Wikileaks ambassador, in a private meeting in the capital Brasilia.

Mr da Silva, a former political prisoner, has long been outspoken about Assange’s imprisonment and extradition attempt by the US.