Hollywood actress Pamela Anderson, who earlier opened up about her “romantic” relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, opposes his extradition to the United States and calls for signing a petition against this.
Anderson wrote on Twitter that Assange “was correct in believing that USA was relentlessly trying to shut him up” “for exposing the truth” and “for helping expose crimes against humanity.”
The actress noted that “being in the public eye helped him evade rendition, torture or death so far.” “We must keep all eyes on him,” she emphasized.
The Hollywood star called for signing a petition against Assange’s extradition to the US published by Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). The document says that Assange “has done the world a great service in documenting American war crimes, its spying on allies and other dirty secrets of the world’s most powerful regimes, organisations and corporations.” “The very extradition of Julian Assange to the United States would at the same time mean the final death of freedom of the press in the West,” it says.
More than 30,000 people have signed the petition, DiEm25 website says.
Anderson spoke about “a romantic kind of connection” with Assange in her interview with Fox News in August 2018. The actress visited Assange in Ecuador’s Embassy in London many times spending hours talking with him.