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It\\u2019s been 17 years since Julian Assange created Wikileaks, the online publisher of classified documents that has changed politics forever. For eleven of those years, Assange has either been in hiding, or in prison.

But why is Assange still in prison? When American whistleblower, Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years for leaking secret government files to Wikileaks, has already been set free?

Today, foreign affairs and national security correspondent Matthew Knott on the unusual group of Australian politicians visiting Washington on Wednesday, in a bid to finally free Assange. And whether his fate will ultimately be determined by whoever holds the American presidency.

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