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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**
 ===== Context =====
+**See also [[Political persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks]]**
 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.
 ===== The indictment =====
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 See also [[In Defense of Julian Assange]]
+==== The Espionage Act ====
+=== I am guilty of violating the Espionage Act ===
+Opinion by filmmaker Laura Poitras, Dec. 21, 2020
+https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/opinion/laura-poitras-assange-espionage-act.html
+=== Assange and the Espionage Act ===
+https://consortiumnews.com/2021/07/07/the-espionage-act-julian-assange-2-the-espionage-acts-uk-origins/
 ===== About Extradition =====
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 ==== Bars to extradition in Assange's case ====
-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.
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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]].
 They are exposed in the {{:eh2_court_documents:2020.11.06_assange_extradition_hearings_assange_defence_closing_submissions.pdf| defence closing statement}}