Wikileaks founder to learn on Tuesday if he can appeal against his extradition to the United States
Crowds of supporters gather outside the high court during Julian Assange's extradition appeal hearing. A ruling will be handed down on Tuesday.Crowds of supporters gather outside the high court during Julian Assange's extradition appeal hearing. A ruling will be handed down on Tuesday.Julian Assange will learn whether he can fight to stop his extradition to the United States at 9.30pm AEDT on Tuesday when two senior judges of London’s high court hand down their ruling.
“This legally unprecedented prosecution seeks to criminalise the application of ordinary journalistic practices of obtaining and publishing true classified information of the most obvious and important public interest,” Edward Fitzgerald KC, who represents Assange, submitted to the court.“were responsible for the exposure of criminality on the part of the US government on an unprecedented scale,” including torture, rendition, extrajudicial killings and war crimes.
The US argue Assange’s leaks put the lives of their agents in peril, and accused Assange’s team of having “consistently and repeatedly misrepresented” the case.Assange was not being prosecuted for “mere publication” but for “aiding and abetting” or “conspiring with” the whistleblower Chelsea Manning to unlawfully obtain the documents in question, “undoubtedly committing serious criminal offences in so doing and then disclosing the unredacted names of sources ”.
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