Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's European defense team has said it intends to seek political asylum in France for the whistleblower. Assange’s US extradition trial is set to begin on Monday in London.

“We consider the situation is sufficiently serious that our duty is to talk about it” with French president Emmanuel Macron," Assange's French lawyer said, adding that "France is the homeland of human rights”.

In 2015, the French government denied Assange’s asylum request, after he asked th...