There will be a hearing in the extradition case of Asanža, meanwhile several hundred doctors demand his release / Article / LSM.lv

There will be a hearing on the extradition of Asanza, while several hundred doctors are demanding his releaseUģis Lībietis00:00 / 00:56

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The United States Department of Justice, which is seeking the extradition of Julien Asanz, the former founder of Wikileaks, to the United States last week stepped up charges against Asanze. It is now alleged that Asanz used to try to hire hackers at various conferences in order to try to obtain various state secrets in the future.

These allegations reinforce the 18 allegations already made, which are punishable by life imprisonment if convicted. So far, Asanz has not attended its administrative hearings on the pretext of poor health. But meanwhile, some 200 doctors from 33 countries have signed the letter, claiming that the British authorities should be held accountable for the psychological torture of Asanza. If he died in Belmars Prison during the investigation, the authorities would be guilty of torture to death. The final hearing in the Assanze deportation case is scheduled for September 7.

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2020 In February, a British court began to look US claim to release Julian Asanz, founder of WikiLeaks website.

Asanze is in custody in London because of British police Detained in April 2019 and was taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had spent seven years.

This happened after the President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno revoked the diplomatic protection granted to Asanz.

In April, the United States filed a first indictment against Asanz for secretly collaborating with former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in 2010 to hack passwords stored on Department of Defense computers.

He was later raised 17 new charges for violating U.S. espionage law by obtaining and publishing classified information in 2010.

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