
UK court approves extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States after a long legal battle in Britain. A British court authorized his extradition on Wednesday.
After several years of trial, British justice has decided to authorize the extradition of the founder of WikiLeaks requested by the United States who want to try him for espionage and revelations of state secrets.
In the United States, the case concerns the dissemination via Wikileaks since 2010 of more than 700,000 classified documents on American military and diplomatic activities, in particular in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Westminster Magistrates Court in London has formally issued an extradition order for the Australian who had sought political asylum in Britain. If extradited to the United States, he faces 175 years in prison.
And if that were to happen, the United States would face one of the biggest scandals of attacks on freedom of the press, this is what several human rights organizations have denounced.
But the case is still not over, the defendant’s defense can still appeal the court ruling and go to the High Court, and London still has a way to ‘save’ the 50-year-old Australian if British Home Secretary Priti Patel decides not to validate the court decision.
His former lawyer, Stella Moris, and also wife of Julian Assange, had called on the British government to prevent his extradition to the United States after the refusal of the British Supreme Court to examine his appeal.
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