France: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains in custody in Britain and his wife said on Tuesday that the European Union must take a "stronger position" with the United States to secure his release.

The US has requested that the Australian publisher be extradited to face trial for disclosing military information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He was a finalist for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, established by the European Parliament in 1988. "I hope that the European institutions will now take a definite stand.

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They are able to take a stand because of the support of their own Parliament. Stella Assange said, because it is a political matter, it will be taken up.

He told a press conference held at the European Parliament in Strasbourg that political pressure should be applied to the United States, a close ally of the European Union.

The people of Ukraine will finally receive the Sakharov Prize in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

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By including him in the running for the award, Assange's wife claimed that Brussels had "politically signaled that this matter matters to the EU, European citizens and the European press".

It is time for European institutions to realize that the European Parliament has given them a clear right to take up this matter and fight for Julian's release.

She continued to say that Assange had been refused permission to make a statement via video link by Belmarsh Prison, the high-security facility outside London where he is being held.

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After the 51-year-old published the first of thousands of US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks in 2010, the US Justice Department filed charges against Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917.