LONDON (Reuters) – Musician and singer-songwriter Roger Waters as being banned from singing Reason….

Roger Waters Says Prepared to Help Fund WikiLeaks, Hopeful Assange Might Return

LONDON (Reuters) – Musician and singer-songwriter Roger Waters says he hopes a now free Julian Assange might one day be able to resume his work at WikiLeaks if he wants to, and that he is prepared to help fund the whistleblower media organisation.

 

The Pink Floyd co-founder, who had long called for the release of the Australian publisher from a jail in Britain, told Reuters he had exchanged messages of “sighs of relief” with Assange’s wife Stella since he arrived in Canberra last week.

 

Waters also visited Assange in jail last year with Stella and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.

 

Assange landed in Australia after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law in a deal that sets him free from a 14-year legal battle. Waters said Assange was now “somewhere secret” with his family.

 

“If he could (return to WikiLeaks) and if it’s in his heart and if that’s what he would want to do, I’m sure he’s got the balls to do it,” Waters said in an interview. “That remains to be seen.”

 

Asked if Assange would be in a condition to do so, Waters said: “You’d have to ask Julian…but I hope so. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. But mainly, I hope…that he’s going to see his boys grow up now and they can talk to their father.”