Whistleblower Assange faces extradition to the United States. An extradition ban was overturned by the London High Court in December. Now the decision on the appeal could soon be made.
In the legal dispute over the US extradition request for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, his supporters expect a decision on his appeal request next Monday.
The London High Court lifted a previously issued extradition ban in December. Assange now wants to have this decision reviewed by the Supreme Court. Whether he will be allowed to do so should now be decided on Monday (January 24th).
“The UK High Court will announce its decision on Monday morning whether to allow Assange to appeal the decision to extradite the US to the Supreme Court on legal grounds of general public interest,” the Don’t Initiative said in a statement Extra Assange. His fiancé Stella Moris will be there and will make a statement, the statement said.
No end of litigation in sight
If the appeal is rejected on Monday, that does not mean the end of the legal dispute, WikiLeaks boss Kristinn Hrafnsson told the German Press Agency on Friday. The decision would then lie with the British Home Secretary, Priti Patel. If she agrees to the US extradition request, an appeal against this can also be brought before the court.
The US judiciary accuses the 50-year-old Australian of having stolen secret material from US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a large number of diplomatic cables together with whistleblower Chelsea Manning and having published them on the Internet platform Wikileaks. This endangered the lives of American informants in many countries. Assange is a spy for US investigators. He faces a sentence of up to 175 years. His supporters, on the other hand, see him as an investigative journalist who brought war crimes to light.
Source From: Stern
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