To Sydney, where imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been immortalised in a city graffiti mural in a bid to boost awareness of his long-running fight for freedom.
The mural, sprayed on the side of a building on George Street in Haymarket, shows a bronze-faced Assange above the words “#Free Assange”.
A mural depicting Julian Assange on the side of a building in Sydney’s CBD.Credit: AAP
Street artist Scott Marsh, best known for controversial murals of former prime minister Tony Abbott, is due to complete the work tomorrow.
Assange, wanted in the United States over the release of US military records and diplomatic cables in 2010, has been held at London’s Belmarsh Prison for more than four years as he fights extradition.
Previously he spent seven years taking refuge inside London’s Ecuadorian embassy.
Assange supporters see his prosecution as a politically motivated…