<p>Interpol issued the order Tuesday for the arrest of Julian Assange in connection with a Swedish investigation of sexual assault allegations. The action comes soon after the publication of 250,000 classified documents earlier this week.<br /><br />Julian's mother Christine Assange told ABC Radio that she was concerned for her son's welfare.<br /><br />"He's my son and I love him, and obviously I don't want him hunted down and jailed."<br />"I'm reacting as any mother would - I'm distressed," AAP quoted her as saying.<br /><br />US Ambassador Jeff Bleich said the US and Australian governments had not held discussions about any plans to apprehend Julian.<br /><br />Bleich told reporters in Canberra Wednesday: "That's for the law enforcement authorities." <br />WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website at the centre of a storm over leaking 250,000 US diplomatic despatches, is a not-for-profit media organisation launched in 2007.<br /><br />Founded by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks with the slogan "We open governments" posted in April 2010 a video from a 2007 incident in which Iraqi civilians were killed by US forces, on a website called Collateral Murder.<br /><br />In July, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the war in Afghanistan not previously available for public review.<br /><br />In October, the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs.</p>
<p>Interpol issued the order Tuesday for the arrest of Julian Assange in connection with a Swedish investigation of sexual assault allegations. The action comes soon after the publication of 250,000 classified documents earlier this week.<br /><br />Julian's mother Christine Assange told ABC Radio that she was concerned for her son's welfare.<br /><br />"He's my son and I love him, and obviously I don't want him hunted down and jailed."<br />"I'm reacting as any mother would - I'm distressed," AAP quoted her as saying.<br /><br />US Ambassador Jeff Bleich said the US and Australian governments had not held discussions about any plans to apprehend Julian.<br /><br />Bleich told reporters in Canberra Wednesday: "That's for the law enforcement authorities." <br />WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website at the centre of a storm over leaking 250,000 US diplomatic despatches, is a not-for-profit media organisation launched in 2007.<br /><br />Founded by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks with the slogan "We open governments" posted in April 2010 a video from a 2007 incident in which Iraqi civilians were killed by US forces, on a website called Collateral Murder.<br /><br />In July, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the war in Afghanistan not previously available for public review.<br /><br />In October, the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs.</p>