Julian Assange

UK govt agreed to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face charges over alleged leak of classified documents related to wars in Iraq, ...

He is a journalist and a publisher, and he is being punished for doing his job,” she added. “This is a dark day for press freedom and for British democracy,” it said. It is only the beginning of a new legal battle. “Today is not the end of the fight. Extradition requests are only sent to the Home Secretary once a judge decides it can proceed after considering various aspects of the case,” the spokesperson said. Mr. Assange retains the normal 14-day right to appeal,” a UK Home Office spokesperson said.

The WikiLeaks founder will face 18 federal counts — whenever he's brought to a U.S. courthouse in Virginia. For now, he has at least one more avenue of ...

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UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has signed an order to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where he faces espionage charges, ...

that foreign power committed crimes which Julian put into the sunlight." If convicted, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison. According to the statement, the Australian government maintains that the Wikileaks founder's case "has dragged on for too long and that it should be brought to a close." "The UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange. Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the US he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health," it said in a statement announcing the order. In a Friday statement, Wikileaks asserted that Assange "committed no crime and is not a criminal," adding that he is a "journalist and a publisher" who "is being punished for doing his job." "This is not the end of the road, and we will use every appeal mechanism available to us to prevent this extradition," she told a press conference.

The British government ordered the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to the United States to face espionage and hacking charges. He has 14 days to appeal.

The U.S. government said it would let Assange serve his sentence in Australia if he were convicted, and Australia agreed to it. Assange says he was within his rights as a journalist and publisher in seeking out and disseminating information on controversial U.S. activities. The Home Office said Assange has two weeks to request an appeal in Britain’s high court. A grand jury in Virginia indicted Assange on 18 counts, including conspiracy and disclosure of national defense information. It is only the beginning of a new legal battle. The organization said Assange’s legal team will appeal: “Today is not the end of the fight.

A MARTINEZ, HOST: The U.S. may have moved closer to getting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in this country to stand trial. The British government has ...

But clearly, this has been going on for many, many years, and they will exhaust all legal avenues open to them to try and prevent him from traveling to the U.S. from the U.K., A. It said essentially that Ms. Patel had to sign the order, quote, "if there are no grounds to prohibit the order being made" - in other words, if all legal avenues through the British courts have been exhausted. Her department said, essentially, she was obliged to sign the extradition order, but Mr. Assange would retain the usual right to appeal within the next 14 days, something his team has said he will do. Is this fight to avoid coming back to the U.S. over now with this decision? Then the high court in London later ruled that it would be safe for him to be extradited after U.S. officials gave assurances about his treatment once he arrived inside the U.S. penal system, potentially. Last year, a British district court judge ruled that Assange should not be extradited to the United States and that it would be oppressive to do so because of his poor mental health at the time. The U.S. may have moved closer to getting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in this country to stand trial. His lawyers appealed that decision to the U.K. Supreme Court earlier this year, where judges ended up ruling that there was no, quote, "applicable point of law," given those American assurances that should prevent his extradition. MARTINEZ: Now, this has been going on for a long time. Now, this statement went on to say that the U.K. courts had, quote, "not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr. Assange," and that it would not be, quote, "incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and freedom of expression." The British government has approved his extradition to face spying charges. Assange has been fighting for years to avoid being sent to the U.S. for trial.

The WikiLeaks founder will appeal the UK Home Office's decision to extradite him to the US.

“Assange may have at least one more avenue of appeal, so he may not be on a flight to the United States just yet,” Trevor Timm, executive director of the group Freedom of Press, said in a statement. He has committed no crime and is not a criminal. “This is a dark day for Press freedom and for British democracy,” WikiLeaks said in a statement shared on Twitter. “Julian did nothing wrong.

The United Kingdom's Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the United States to face espionage charges.

The United Kingdom’s Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face espionage charges. He has 14 days to appeal the decision. LONDON — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States.

The British government has approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges.

He is a journalist and a publisher, and he is being punished for doing his job.” They argue that the case is politically motivated, that he would face inhumane treatment and be unable to get a fair trial in the U.S. “I spoke to him last night as well and he had a lot of anxiety. A British district court judge initially rejected the extradition request on the grounds that Assange was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions. Journalism organizations and human rights groups had called on Britain to refuse the extradition request. “All it will take is a simple telephone call from Attorney General Merrick Garland to the home secretary in the United Kingdom to drop these charges. “He has committed no crime and is not a criminal. He couldn’t sleep,” she said. That’s all it will take. Stella Assange, a lawyer who married her husband in a prison ceremony in March, said the U.K. decision marked “a dark day for press freedom and for British democracy.” A British court ruled in April that Assange could be sent to face trial in the U.S., sending the case to the U.K. government for a decision. The Home Office said in a statement that the government had to approve his move to the U.S. because “the U.K. courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr. Assange.”

The WikiLeaks founder will face 18 federal counts — whenever he's brought to a U.S. courthouse in Virginia. For now, he has at least one more avenue of ...

It also says the charges aren't a response to him publishing U.S. secrets in bulk, but to revealing specific confidential information about people facing dangerous reprisals. The U.S. government uses the network to share classified information and material. The least serious charge Assange faces is the first one leveled against him: conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. For one thing, they note, the information he published was true. WikiLeaks has published a massive number of documents on its website and has also given information to journalists. Assange has insisted he was acting as a journalist, working for transparency and exposing secrets. At the time, he was concerned both about U.S. espionage charges and also an extradition request over rape allegations in Sweden (which have since been dropped). In March, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled Assange couldn't appeal the lower court's ruling against him, saying his case "didn't raise an arguable point of law." The most serious counts against him include conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information. But the U.S. appealed that decision — and won. "This is disappointing news that should concern anyone who cares about the First Amendment and the right to publish," Assange's attorney, Barry Pollack, said. A U.S. prosecution of Assange "would be unprecedented and unconstitutional," the ACLU's Ben Wizner said last December, "and would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations."

Julian Assange—founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks—can now be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he will face ...

He is a journalist and a publisher, and he is being punished for doing his job.” Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 as a whistleblowing website that publishes classified media from anonymous sources. He’s currently being held in a high-security prison in London. Assange has the right to appeal today’s decision within 14 days, and WikiLeaks indicated it would be doing just that in a statement posted on Twitter this morning.

The British government on Friday ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges, a milestone — but not the end — of a decade-long legal saga sparked by his website's publication of classified ...

At a rally in New York on Friday, Assange's father, John Shipton, said the decision brings the First Amendment to an end. WikiLeaks said it would challenge the order, and Assange's lawyers have 14 days to lodge an appeal. The British government on Friday ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges, a milestone — but not the end — of a decade-long legal saga sparked by his website's publication of classified U.S. documents.

Wikileaks has already announced it will appeal the decision, and the year-long drama could drag on for many years more.

The prime minister and foreign minister have certainly invested heavily in foreign relations in the early weeks of their government, with emphasis on the significance of the US alliance. The Australian government has been clear in our view that Mr Assange’s case has dragged on for too long and that it should be brought to a close. At this stage it is impossible to say if the Albanese government has the will to take a stronger stand on Assange’s liberty. The Howard government at the time brought him back to Australia. This is not unprecedented. Assange’s next appeal will also seek to re-litigate whether US government assurances regarding the prison conditions Assange will face are adequate or reliable. Now it seems possible Australia may revert to its long established position of non-interference in an ongoing court process. This is a fresh legal process rather than a continuation of the judicial stage of extradition that followed his arrest in 2019. The question of whether and how the home secretary decided on this issue could now be ripe for argument. He can appeal on an issue of law or fact, but must obtain leave of the High Court to launch an appeal. Assange faces a high risk of prolonged solitary confinement, which would violate the prohibition on torture or other ill treatment. This decision means Assange is one step closer to extradition, but has not yet reached the final stage in what has been a years-long process. In the High Court’s view, the American government’s assurances sufficiently reduced the risk.

Stella Moris, human rights lawyer and wife of publisher Julian Assange, joins Luke Grant to discuss her husband's extradition from the UK to the US.

UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel signs order to extradite WikiLeaks co-founder to US - Anadolu Agency.

Then-US President Barrack Obama's administration reacted to the leaks, describing them as a national security threat. The British police said he was arrested for skipping his bail in 2012 and on behalf of the US due to an extradition warrant. He also faced sexual assault charges in Sweden and was arrested in London in December 2010.