====== Extradition hearing first instance verdict - No US extradition but...======

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==== The Verdict ====

=== The Verdict === 

**The verdict** https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/USA-v-Assange-judgment-040121.pdf 

=== Prosecution & Defense arguments (reminder) ===

**[[https://challengepower.info/_media/eh2_court_documents/prosecution-skeleton-argument-on-behalf-usa-sept-2020-assange-extradition-hearing.pdf|Prosecution skeleton argument on behalf of the USA PDF]]**

**[[https://challengepower.info/_media/eh2_court_documents/2020.11.06_assange_extradition_hearings_assange_defence_closing_submissions.pdf|Defence Closing Statement]]**

==== Critics and analysis ====

=== A dangerous verdict, by Nils Melzer ===

**[[nils_melzer_-_a_dangerous_verdict_-_20210226| A dangerous verdict, interview with Nils Melzer]]** Austrian Journalists Club, February 26th 2021

==== Extradition denied, judge refusals to grant bail ====

On January 6th 2021 District judge Vanessa Baraister denies Assange bail

**RSF condemns “unnecessarily cruel” decision to keep Julian Assange detained**

https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-condemns-unnecessarily-cruel-decision-keep-julian-assange-detained 

**Amnesty International: UK Decision to refuse Assange bail renders his continued detention “arbitrary”** 

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/01/uk-decision-to-refuse-assange-bail-renders-his-continued-detention-arbitrary/