WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's father has asked the Australian government to return his son to Australia.
He said he was shocked at how weak he looked during his arrest in London on Thursday.
John Shipton is Assange's biological father, and he was the secretary of the WikiLeaks party that his son founded on the occasion of the 2013 senate election.
The media reports that he visited his son every Christmas at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange took refuge from 2012 until his arrest.
In a statement to Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun, Shipton said that Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister should do something.
"It can be resolved simply to everyone's satisfaction. There were talks between a senator and a senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about extraditing Julian to Australia," he added.
In 2012, Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, which have since been dropped.
London police arrested Assange on Thursday on a US extradition warrant and for breaching bail conditions in the UK.
Ecuador previously revoked Assange's asylum status, citing his "violations of international conventions and daily protocols" as the reason.
The United States is looking for Assange for publishing tens of thousands of secret government documents via Wikileaks.
His father said he was shocked to see how his son looked when police took him out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
"I saw how the policemen had to carry him to the end of the stairs. He didn't look good. I'm 74 years old and I'm in better shape than he is 47. It's very shocking," he said, adding that Assange had been living as a prisoner for months. a high-security prison and that cameras followed his every move.
On May 2, the court will consider a US extradition request for piracy and a British subpoena issued in June 2012 that he violated by fleeing to the Ecuadorian embassy. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday that Canberra would not give Assange any special treatment.
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