Opinion: The attempt to extradite Julian Assange is designed to stifle dissent, sending a chill through the ranks of investigative journalists worldwide
As Julian Assange makes his way in a prison van this morning, London time, to the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court for his US extradition hearing, he's heading for a date with destiny he long predicted.
It was just such a fear of being extradited to the US that led Assange to successfully seek asylum in London's Ecuador embassy in 2012, where he remained until April last year when police stormed in and arrested him - a particularly zealous act for the relatively minor offence of skipping bail.
Despite repeated denials by the British government, Assange has always argued the Swedish extradition was part of a plan to pass him to the US. It seems he was right. A second hearing found Campbell and his co-defendants guilty of unauthorised receipt of classified information. They were given non-custodial sentences. Possibly as a result of the public uproar about what had happened, the more damaging charge against Campbell was dropped.
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