Julian Assange uses all the possibilities of his right. The WikiLeaks founder, who is trying to avoid extradition to the United States where he faces 175 years in prison for the release of thousands of classified documents, appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), jurisdiction confirmed on Friday December 12 3. Julian Assange also appealed to the High Court in London, which is expected to rule in early 2023.
Reserved cables. British authorities last June approved the extradition of the 51-year-old Australian, arrested and jailed in 2019 after spending more than seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He is being tried by US courts on 18 counts, including espionage, linked to WikiLeaks’ publication since 2010 of hundreds of thousands of US military documents and classified diplomatic cables on the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Which, according to Washington, puts lives at risk.
“The United States, historically a global model of opening and protecting the press, has launched the world’s most dangerous attack on press freedom,” Julian’s wife Stella Assange said in an op-ed published in Opinion in May 2022. Nils Muižnieks, Amnesty International’s director for Europe, spoke of “a travesty of justice” regarding the decision of the British High Court, which gave the green light to extradition across the Atlantic.
(with Reuters)
