{"id":28149,"date":"2013-02-14T08:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=28149"},"modified":"2013-02-14T08:01:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T07:01:59","slug":"assange-to-run-for-australian-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/assange-to-run-for-australian-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange to run for Australian Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28159\" alt=\"assange-300x0\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0-55x75.jpg 55w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0-73x100.jpg 73w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0-279x383.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Julian Assange has filed a formal application to run for Australian Senate. He\u00a0will run for the Senate in Victoria at the September 14 federal election as the lead candidate of the WikiLeaks Party.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on his behalf, supporters filed the\u00a0application\u00a0to the Australian Electoral Commission in Melbourne on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Australian law states that non-residents are\u00a0eligible to run for up to three years after they leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>Assange was\u00a0granted asylum and is currently living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, under the near constant\u00a0\u00a0surveillance of the Met Police.<\/p>\n<p>He is protected from extradition to Sweden\u00a0under the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic_Relations\" target=\"_blank\">Vienna Convention<\/a>, but should he leave the Embassy police are most likely to hand him over to Swedish authorities. \u00a0Assange fears\u00a0being sent from Sweden to the United States where officials want to question him about his role in leaking thousands of U.S. documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28159\" alt=\"assange-300x0\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0-55x75.jpg 55w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0-73x100.jpg 73w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/assange-300x0-279x383.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Julian Assange has filed a formal application to run for Australian Senate. He\u00c2\u00a0will run for the Senate in Victoria at the September 14 federal election as the lead candidate of the WikiLeaks Party.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on his behalf, supporters filed the\u00c2\u00a0application\u00c2\u00a0to the Australian Electoral Commission in Melbourne on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}