He Tribunal Superior of London will announce this Tuesday if it authorizes Julian Assange to appeal his case again in the United Kingdom or if, on the other hand, his extradition can be activated to USAapproved by the British Government in 2022.
The judges Victoria Sharp y Adam Johnsonwho heard the parties in two preliminary hearings in February, will decide whether to support or revoke the ruling issued on June 6, 2023 by their colleague Jonathan Swift.
This judge denied him permission to continue appealing in this country and approved the surrender order signed in June 2022 by the then Minister of the Interior. Come on Patel.
It is expected that Stella Assangewife of the Australian computer scientist, who is in preventive detention in the London prison of Belmarshmake statements on Tuesday outside the court, where dozens of supporters of the founder of WikiLeaks.
Washington is demanding Assange for 18 crimes of espionage and computer intrusion – punishable, according to his defense, with up to 175 years in prison – for the revelations on his website, which in 2010 and 2011 exposed alleged war crimes of the United States in the conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The former hacker’s lawyers asked the High Court for permission to appeal aspects of the litigation that were not appealed in another process in 2021, as well as the extradition order signed by Patel.
If the magistrates agree to your demand, a new appeal trial will begin before the English Justice, which could last over time.
If she is denied, her surrender to the United States will be activated, in which case the defense has already said that it will request precautionary measures to detain her. European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the opening of a process there, although there are no guarantees that Strasbourg accept it.
In listing the arguments that would support their potential appeal, Assange’s lawyers, Edward Fitzgerald y Mark Summerssaid in February that his surrender would violate the British-American Extradition Treaty as the alleged crimes were, in their opinion, of a political nature and against their freedom of expression, in addition to potentially carrying the death penalty.
They also argued that he would not have a fair trial in the United States since, due to the location of the court, the jury would be chosen from people linked to the Government in Washington.
Clair Dobbinon behalf of the US Justice, asked the Superior to disallow the appeal and give the green light to the surrender, arguing that it is legal because the charges against the accused are not political but “criminal crimes.” “based on evidence” contained in the American Espionage Act of 2017.
He stressed that it is incorrect when the defense tries to compare Assange, who he said tried between 2009 and 2015 to recruit hackers for WikiLeaks, with “an ordinary journalist or editor” who uses sources for their news.
Julian Assange, who has spent almost 14 years in captivity in England without having been convicted of any crime, was unable to attend the February hearings amid fears about his deteriorating health.
After initially being detained in 2010 at the request of Sweden for a case now closed, the 52-year-old Australian took refuge in 2012 as a political asylum in the embassy of Ecuador in London, from which he was expelled in 2019 and detained at the request of the United States, which instigated the current process. EFE (I)
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