Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has appealed the British government’s decision to extradite him to the US, where he will face trial for exposing US war crimes by publishing documents he received from whistleblower and former Army soldier Chelsea Manning.
The appeal was lodged by Assange’s legal team to the High Court of London and came after British Home Secretary Priti Patel ruled to extradite the WikiLeaks founder. No further details have been made public about the appeal.
“The legal team representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his extradition case in the UK has filed an appeal at the High Court of Justice,” journalist Kevin Gosztola, who follows the Assange case closely, wrote on Twitter. “There aren’t many details his attorneys can share until the High Court decides whether to grant a hearing or not.”
Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, confirmed the news and called on the Australian government to take action on behalf of the Wikileaks founder, who is an Australian citizen. “We also urge the Australian government to intervene immediately in the case to end this nightmare,” Shipton told Reuters. Australia’s new prime minister, Anthony Albanese, recently rejected calls for him to intervene in the case.
If extradited to the US, Assange faces 17 counts of espionage and one count of conspiracy to commit a computer crime. But Assange used standard journalistic practices to obtain the leaks he was indicted for, something many human rights groups, journalist organizations, and UN officials have pointed out.
His brother asked Australian to intervene? We saw how they treated their own during lockdown. He is as good as a dead.
Assange should take his case to the ECHR they will set him free just to pi$$ the Brits and yanks off.
He appeals while he sits naked in solitary confinement.
He’s being punished. It just drags on under various excuses. Of course, in the end they mean to disappear him into supermax torture until they’ve killed him, ironic given his “crime” is disclosure of their torture and murder.
He is not being punished, he is being tortured.
I wish for Julian Assange all the best but I fear that he is going to be made ‘the example of’ so as to discourage others from ever attempting to follow in his footsteps…
Countries do these things ALL the time and they get away with it…
Has been. The lesson has been taken, and the information has dried up.
Unless you believe all the abuses ended once Trump was in charge?
Predates Trump, who discussed capturing him, then murdering him. Apparently the truth will not set you free, but get you tortured or murdered.
It has occurred to me that had JA been imprisoned in Ireland rather than wimpy GB, the Irish people would have initiated a jail break and spirited him away to a secret location, under the protection of the IRA. Hint: don’t mess with them.
And the individuals who did so would have been acquitted in Irish courts because they “acted on their consciences.” (There was a precedence for this defense.)
Bring Assange here and ( er, as SOMEONE here rather implied) we’ll go all John Brown on his captors. Of course Amerikkkan courts aren’t reasonable like Irish ones (the Irish love a good rebel) but hey, we’ve gotta do what we’ve gotta do to free a HERO.
I’ll be there.
Sounds like a great movie!
Also, I’m part Irish and English, Italian, German and Oakie…
Donna…you’re hired!!!
The Fields of Athenry, Bobby Sands, and … ahhhhhh. A grisly business, and Anglos, no rookies.
Thanks for the memorial.
I still vividly recall Bobby Sands dying of self-consumption.
Assange could be in possession of the truth about 911. When would be a an opportune time to expose it to the world…?!
There is no steel-structured building that has collapsed on its footprint just because of fire in history…. But 99.99% of them have been collapsed by explosive-controlled demolition…!