Posted on 02/19/2024 7:27:05 PM PST by DoodleBob
LONDON, UK - The High Court in London Tuesday will begin hearing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's final UK appeal against extradition to the United States to face trial over publishing secret military and diplomatic files.
Washington wants the 52-year-old Australian citizen extradited after he was charged there multiple times between 2018 and 2020 in connection with WikiLeaks' 2010 publication of files relating to the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The long-running legal saga in Britain's courts is now nearing a conclusion, after Assange lost successive rulings in recent years.
If this week's two-day bid to appeal -- set to begin at 10:30 am (1030 GMT) Tuesday -- is successful, he will have another chance to argue his case in a London court, with a date set for a full hearing.
If he loses, Assange will have exhausted all UK appeals and will enter the extradition process, although his team have indicated they will appeal to European courts.
His wife Stella Assange has said he will ask the European Court of Human Rights to temporarily halt the extradition if needed, warning he would die if sent to the United States.
"Tomorrow and the day after will determine whether he lives or dies essentially, and he's physically and mentally obviously in a very difficult place," she told BBC radio on Monday.
US President Joe Biden has faced sustained pressure, both domestically and internationally, to drop the 18-count indictment Assange faces in federal court in Virginia, which was filed under his predecessor Donald Trump.
Major media organisations, press freedom advocates and the Australian parliament are among those decrying the prosecution under the 1917 Espionage Act, which has never been used before over publishing classified information.
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He’ll die in jail, and we will be told he shouldn’t have challenged “Our Democracy”.
Hillary is salivating over this.
Guess which administration had Assange indicted?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2638804/posts
What a difference 14 years makes.
Almost everyone on FR seems to have haaaated Assange back then.
The British court will do the CIA’s bidding, as MI6 did the CIA’s bidding in spying on Trump in 2015-16.
Yeah and the Left loved him back then.
The stuff he published embarrassed the US gov’t (too damn bad) and identified sources who worked for the USA gov’t (that was bad, some were killed)
But the Left who wants this guy to die now, was happy to have Ofagga pardon “Chelsea” Manning, who was the one really responsible for this.
https://www.youtube.com/live/8t6mkx-QcDk?si=83a2WzMLEs0g8ipT&t=149
Won’t play. Do you have another link?
Yes they did hate him. If Assange does so does the truth about Seth Rich.
The Clintons have great reach to increase their Arkancide count.
The CIA is the most dangerous group of people on the planet. Read or listen to RFK jr on the history of all the bioweapon experiments they have done on Americans… some will shock you.
Every president, including Trump, has allowed this targeting of Americans.
I have a copy of the CFR for EUA that I printed in spring 2020 to preserve it.
Why did Trump allow this also.
It is dangerous, he is either clueless or complicit.
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