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====== Julian Assange Extradition Case to the US ====== | ====== Julian Assange Extradition Case to the US ====== |
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**In April 2019 the US submitted a request to the UK to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is charged with 17 Espionage Act offenses, and 1 count of conspiracy to commit computer crime (for allegedly attempting to protect a source’s anonymity). He risks a possible 175 years prison sentence.** | **In April 2019 the US submitted a request to the UK to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is charged with 17 Espionage Act offenses, and 1 count of conspiracy to commit computer crime (for allegedly attempting to protect a source’s anonymity). He risks a possible 175 years prison sentence.** |
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**On January 4th 2021, district judge Vanessa Baraister rendered the [[https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/usa-v-julian-assange/|first instance verdict]]: she ruled Assange cannot be extradited to the US on the grounds //it would be unjust and oppressive to extradite him by reason of his medical condition//. However, she did not accept as valid the other important bars to extradition {{:eh2_court_documents:2020.11.06_assange_extradition_hearings_assange_defence_closing_submissions.pdf|the defense team had brought to her attention}}, that Assange is a journalist and the charges against him are political. The freedom of the press is still very much under threat. Assange was denied bail. The US has appealed** | **On January 4th 2021, district judge Vanessa Baraister rendered the [[https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/usa-v-julian-assange/|first instance verdict]]: she ruled Assange cannot be extradited to the US on the grounds //it would be unjust and oppressive to extradite him by reason of his medical condition//. However, she did not accept as valid the other important bars to extradition {{:eh2_court_documents:2020.11.06_assange_extradition_hearings_assange_defence_closing_submissions.pdf|the defense team had brought to her attention}}, that Assange is a journalist and the charges against him are political. The freedom of the press is still very much under threat. Assange was denied bail. The US has appealed** |
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===== Context ===== | ===== Context ===== |
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| **See also [[Political persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks]]** |
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Wikileaks founder and journalist Julian Assange is held at [[Belmarsh high-security prison]] in London, since April 2019 when Ecuador terminated the political asylum [[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/330913 | granted to him in 2012]] under Correa's presidency, rendered him to the UK authorities and the USA officially requested to the UK his extradition for trial. Indeed after years of investigation by a secret grand jury in the USA, paralleled by [[https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24665 | multiparty political persecution which severely damaged his body and mind]], Julian Assange is now charged in the USA with 17 Espionage Act offenses, and 1 count of conspiracy to commit computer crime for allegedly attempting to protect a source’s anonymity - totaling a possible 175 years prison sentence. | Wikileaks founder and journalist Julian Assange is held at [[Belmarsh high-security prison]] in London, since April 2019 when Ecuador terminated the political asylum [[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/330913 | granted to him in 2012]] under Correa's presidency, rendered him to the UK authorities and the USA officially requested to the UK his extradition for trial. Indeed after years of investigation by a secret grand jury in the USA, paralleled by [[https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24665 | multiparty political persecution which severely damaged his body and mind]], Julian Assange is now charged in the USA with 17 Espionage Act offenses, and 1 count of conspiracy to commit computer crime for allegedly attempting to protect a source’s anonymity - totaling a possible 175 years prison sentence. |
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To let this extradition and prosecution happen would inaugurate an era darker than we know. | To let this extradition and prosecution happen would inaugurate an era darker than we know. |
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===== The indictment ===== | ===== The indictment ===== |
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==== First indictment ==== | ==== First indictment ==== |
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See also [[In Defense of Julian Assange]] | See also [[In Defense of Julian Assange]] |
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| ==== The Espionage Act ==== |
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| === I am guilty of violating the Espionage Act === |
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| Opinion by filmmaker Laura Poitras, Dec. 21, 2020 |
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| https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/opinion/laura-poitras-assange-espionage-act.html |
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| === Assange and the Espionage Act === |
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| https://consortiumnews.com/2021/07/07/the-espionage-act-julian-assange-2-the-espionage-acts-uk-origins/ |
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===== About Extradition ===== | ===== About Extradition ===== |
==== Bars to extradition in Assange's case ==== | ==== Bars to extradition in Assange's case ==== |
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Legal arguments why the US extradition of Julian Assange should be denied include the nature of Assange's work as a journalists and that the charges against him are political, as well as due process violations, See [[Spying on Assange inside the Ecuadorian Embassy|spying on Assange and his lawyers]], and his bad physical and mental health. | {{ :campaign_material:toeornottoewrite.png?400 |}} |
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| Legal arguments why the US extradition of Julian Assange should be denied include the nature of Assange's work as a journalist and publisher and that the charges against him are political, as well as due process violations, [[Spying on Assange inside the Ecuadorian Embassy|spying on Assange and his lawyers]], and [[https://challengepower.info/political_persecution_of_assange_and_wikileaks#damages_to_assange_s_healthaccess_to_healthcare_denied|his bad physical and mental health]]. |
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They are exposed in the {{:eh2_court_documents:2020.11.06_assange_extradition_hearings_assange_defence_closing_submissions.pdf| defence closing statement}} | They are exposed in the {{:eh2_court_documents:2020.11.06_assange_extradition_hearings_assange_defence_closing_submissions.pdf| defence closing statement}} |