{"id":1641861,"date":"2022-09-15T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641861"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:05:38","slug":"mexico-city-honors-julian-assange-with-keys-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-city-honors-julian-assange-with-keys-to-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico City honors Julian Assange with keys to the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexico-city-honors-julian-assange-with-keys-to-the-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641861&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2749253\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2749253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2749253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22258048016258-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"John Shipton and Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange&#039;s father and brother respectively, display a diploma awarded by Mexico&#039;s Julian journalists&#039; club during an event sponsored by the Mexican ruling party Morena, at the Telef\u00f3nica Union headquarters, titled \" Freedom for Julian Asange: A Global Struggle \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2749253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Shipton and Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange\u2019s father and brother respectively, display a diploma awarded by Mexico\u2019s Julian journalists\u2019 club during an event sponsored by the Mexican ruling party Morena, at the Telef\u00f3nica Union headquarters, titled \u201cFreedom for Julian Asange: A Global Struggle ,\u201d in Mexico City, on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 (AP Photo\/Marco Ugarte)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:40 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, September 15, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>On Wednesday, Mexican officials honored WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. They honored him by gifting Assange symbolic keys to Mexico City. They were presented during a tribute in recognition of Assange.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Entregamos las Llaves de la Ciudad a la familia de Julian Assange. Para nosotros Julian representa la verdad, la libertad de expresi\u00f3n. Somos una Ciudad progresista que siempre ha defendido las grandes libertades y el derecho al libre acceso a la informaci\u00f3n. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oEmViasEL3\">pic.twitter.com\/oEmViasEL3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dra. Claudia Sheinbaum (@Claudiashein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Claudiashein\/status\/1570077491079049216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The city council only hands out this honor to people they consider to be distinguished visitors. Assange\u2019s family accepted the accolade on his behalf due to this current imprisonment. His father, John Shipton spoke about the honor that was bestowed upon his son.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt moved us almost to tears the generosity and the substance, the gifts of the keys to the city of Mexico,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is as if Mexico City, like a mother hen, takes her cheeks under her wings to protect them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s President offered asylum to the 51-year-old. Assange is fighting extradition to the United States. He is currently imprisoned in Britain.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/defense-for-parkland-shooter-abruptly-rests-case\/\">Defense For Parkland Shooter Abruptly Rests Case<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Shipton and Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange\u2019s father and brother respectively, display a diploma awarded by Mexico\u2019s Julian journalists\u2019 club during an event sponsored by the Mexican ruling party Morena, at the Telef\u00f3nica Union headquarters, titled \u201cFreedom for Julian Asange: A Global Struggle ,\u201d in Mexico City, on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 (AP Photo\/Marco Ugarte) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}