Julian Assange appeals the decision to extradite to the US
2022.12.02 12:14
Julian Assange appeals the decision to extradite to the US
Budrigannews.com – On Friday, the founder of WikiLeaks filed a complaint with the ECHR, the court confirmed on Friday. Assange is trying to leave Britain for the United States, where he is accused of criminal cases.
Since WikiLeaks has released a huge number of confidential documents of the US military, as well as diplomatic cables that, according to Washington, threatened people’s lives, the 51-year-old Assange is wanted by the US authorities on 18 counts, including charges of espionage.
His extradition was approved by Britain, but he appealed to the UK’s Highest Court, which is awaiting its first hearing at the beginning of this year. His lawyers have also filed a lawsuit against Britain to the European Court of Justice, which could potentially be blocked for extradition.
The court ‘s statement read: “We confirm receipt of the application.” Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s brother, told Reuters last week that, according to him, the American authorities want to avoid transferring the case to the EU, since the European media was much more sympathetic to his crime.
A British judge ruled in January 2021 not to extradite Assange because his mental health threatens him with suicide if he is arrested and put in a strict prison. However, this decision was canceled after the appeal of the US authorities, who offered a number of guarantees and assurances that he could be sent to Australia in order to serve any sentence.
Following the Government’s statement that the courts had concluded that the extradition was not an unfair and abusive procedure and that proper treatment would be carried out, the extradition was ratified when the then British Home Secretary ratified it.
In 2010, WikiLeaks became the largest US security breach in the history of the war, when it published hundreds of thousands of secret documents and cables of diplomats. In Australia, Assange is viewed by Western intelligence agencies and US prosecutors as an unconscious enemy of the country, whose actions threaten the lives of agents from information leaks.
In order not to leave Sweden, where he was wanted in Sweden, where he was arrested for sexual assault, which was later removed, he had been hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for seven years.
But in 2019, he was taken out of prison arrest and arrested for violating the conditions of prison arrest. Since then, he has been in a London prison while the extradition issue is being resolved.
Assange’s opponents believe that his prosecutions are politically motivated by an attack on journalists and freedom of speech, and he is a hero who opposes extermination, the victim of which was the exposure of illegal actions of the United States in the conflicts of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Last week, major media outlets, for example, the New York Times, which initially collaborated with the founder of WikiLeaks because of the leak of materials, printed an open note calling for an end to prosecutions.
At the same time, Australian Prime Minister Andrei Albanese said that he had discussed with US representatives the issue of Assange’s release, and that the issue had to be resolved.
