The WikiLeaks founder, who is wanted by Washington, could exhaust his legal options on Tuesday.
Two British judges will deliberate on Tuesday whether to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a new chance to fight against a US request to extradite him for trial on espionage charges. The incarcerated publisher is being targeted for exposing Western criminality, his wife Stella has said.
Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if he is transferred to US custody, for allegedly helping whistleblower Chelsea Manning steal classified documents. His supporters say he is being victimized for the publication of leaked materials by WikiLeaks that were humiliating for the US and its allies.
”We have to be clear about who the criminals are. Just because they are using the justice system to imprison him, it doesn’t mean that justice or the law – international law – is on their side,” Stella Assange told a group of journalists in Italy on Monday, as she received an award for journalism on behalf of her husband.
The prosecution of Assange has already had a chilling effect on journalism in the West, as it demonstrates that in a liberal democracy, a publisher can face consequences for telling inconvenient truths, Stella said.
If extradited to the US, “there is no prospect for either a fair trial or Julian being safe in that country,” she warned. This would also mean that the media is subject to this type of treatment, and “there is no coming back from this.”
Assange has been held at the top-security Belmarsh prison in the UK since 2019. A court in northern Virginia indicted him under the US Espionage Act, which does not allow a defense on public interest grounds, a month after his arrest.
According to his wife, “administrative excuses are being used to treat Julian in a cruel and unusual manner” in the UK, which serves as evidence of the political nature of his case. In this regard, Britain is an accessory to his persecution, she said.
Britain agreed to extradite Assange in 2022. His defense team has lost one appeal since. If the High Court in London rules against him again, no legal recourse will be left in the British system. If this happens, he intends to seek intervention by the European Court of Human Rights.
Assange need to be released IMMEDIATELY as he WILL NOT get a fair trial in the , and even IF he did, he would be held indefinitely under the NDAA in the U.S..
The Australian Embassy seems to NOT be effective in securing his release. So much for them and their SAS Extraction Teams…beginning with Assange’s stint in South Amerika…!
IF Assange is freed in the UK, he will need to leave the West IMMEDIATELY and go to Russia, and seek asylum.
Vile US establishment and its British lap dogs are having a hard time justifying their tyranny. The world despises them and their incessant attacks on free speech, including journalism.Whats being done to Assange is a crime.
* whistleblower BRADLEY Manning.
Make-believe names don’t count.
I wonder IF Chelsea’s testicles are still attached and intact?
Changing one’s sex to avoid the harsher treatments in an all-male prison like Leavenworth, well…that was a plan which didn’t initially work.
But, Obama married Michael, hence Obama granted a Presidential Pardon to the ‘changeling’ ; and not necessarily based on reporting a Military Crime via leaking…