JULIAN ASSANGE EXTRADITION A UK court issued orders to extradite the #WikiLeaks founder #JulianAssange to the United States to face trial over the publication of secret files relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
UK court formally issues order to extradite Julian Assange to US
LONDON A UK court on Wednesday issued a formal order to extradite WikiLeaks author Julian Assange to the United States to face trial over the publication of secret lines relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.The decision now rests with innards minister Priti Patel, although Assange may still appeal within 14 days of any decision to authorise the extradition.The ruling Wednesday by a justice in central London brings the long- running legal saga in the UK courts closer to a conclusion.But Assange’s attorneys have until May 18 to makere presentations to Patel and could potentially launch farther prayers on other points in the case.”No appeal to the High Court has yet been filed by him in respect of the other important issues he raised preliminarily,
“his attorneysBirnberg Peirce Solicitors said in a statement last month.”That separate process of appeal has, of course, yet to beinitiated.”The case has come a cause celebre for media freedom, with Assange’s sympathizers criminatingWashington of trying to muzzle reporting of licit securityconcerns.Outside the court, protesters held above posterspraying”
Do not extradite Assange”and attached unheroic#FreeAssange lists to walls outside thecourt.Journalist and Assange contender Carolina Graterol, 55, from Venezuela, called the ruling”another day in the death of republic and the rule of law in the United Kingdom.””The position that the judge has taken in subscribing the repatriation request. is a travesty of justice,”she told AFP.
“I suppose he’ll die sorely in jail if he’s transferred.”Assange was last month denied authorization to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against moves to extradite him to the US, where he could face a continuance inprison.Washington wants to put him on trial in connection with the publication of secret militarylines relating to the US- led wars in Iraq andAfghanistan.
In January last time, the 50- time-old Australian appeared to have won a reprieve on the grounds he was a self-murder threat if he was kept in solitary confinement at a maximumsecurity USfacility.But the US government appealed, and at a two- day appeal hail in October its attorneys refocusedto politic assurances that Assange would not be held in chastising insulation at a civil supermax captivity, and would admit applicablecare.
Assange appealed that ruling and, in January, two judges allowed him to apply to the country’s loftiest court on” points of law of general public significance”. But the court refused authorization to appeal, saying the operation” didn’t raise an negotiable point of law”. Magistrate Paul Goldspring on Wednesday said he was” dutybound”to shoot the case to Patel in the light of the advanced court’sruling.
Assange is wanted to face trial for violatingthe US Espionage Act by publishing military and politic lines in 2010. He could face up to 175 times in jail if plantshamefaced, although the exact judgment is delicate toestimate.He has been held on remand at a top- security jail in southeast London since 2019 for jumping bail in a former case criminating him of sexual assault in Sweden.
That case was dropped but he wasn’t released from captivity after serving time for violating bail on the grounds he was a flight threat in the US repatriationcase.Assange, who married his fiancé Stella Moris in jail last month, spent seven times at Ecuador’s delegacy in London to avoid being removed toSweden.He was arrested when the government changed in Quito and his politic protection wasremoved.Moris last month called on Patel to block the repatriation, saying”This is a political case and she can end it.”
