The brother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Gabriel Shipton, told a press conference in Berlin that “the German government should express its concerns to US President Joe Biden about the Assange case and demand that it be dropped.”

For his part, his father, John Shipton, noted: “I have always felt that tacit consent and inaction is complicity. Not covering the Julian Assange case is complicity.” The father and brother urged Germany to use its influence in NATO and at the upcoming G7 summit in Bavaria to raise the Assange cause.

On Friday, the British government granted a US extradition request for Assange, angering his supporters and press freedom advocates.

The American judiciary requires Assange to stand trial on charges of publishing in 2010 more than 700,000 classified documents revealing US military and diplomatic activities, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. If found guilty, he faces a 175-year prison term.