Assange presents new arguments to challenge extradition to the United States

According to the Anti-Asange Campaign, the “enhanced grounds for appeal” relate to a trial judge’s ruling that blocked his extradition in January 2021, and to his extradition order to US prosecutors issued in June. Home Secretary Priti Patel.

The text notes that in the case of the US government, the Australian journalist, who has been held in a British maximum security prison since 2019, is said to be on trial and punished for his political views.

It is also alleged that the request by the United States violates the bilateral treaty signed by London and Washington and international law that prohibits extradition for political reasons.

The statement quoted Stella Assange, the wife of the founder of WikiLeaks, as saying that since the last ruling, new evidence has emerged that the United States’ persecution of my husband is a criminal violation.

According to Stella, who met yesterday in Geneva with Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the judges of the Supreme Court must now decide whether to give Assange the opportunity to file his appeal in a public hearing.

Last week, a group of lawyers and journalists filed a lawsuit in New York against the US Central Intelligence Agency and its then-director, Mike Pompeo, for allegedly spying on their conversations while they visited cyber activity while he was at the Ecuadorean embassy. . in London.

The United States intends to prosecute the founder of WikiLeaks for exposing the war crimes committed by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, and thousands of classified State Department files.

If he is tried and found guilty by a US court, the internet activist could be sentenced to 175 years in prison on 17 counts of the Espionage Act against him. OMR/Nm