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Julian Assange “Will Die” If Extradited To US, Says His Wife

Last updated: 2024/02/15 at 4:01 PM
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US is making an attempt to convict Julian Assange beneath the 1917 Espionage Act. (File)

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The spouse of Julian Assange mentioned Thursday the WikiLeaks founder would die if extradited to the USA, forward of his newest enchantment towards the UK ruling.

Assange, 52, is needed on espionage costs within the US and has been detained within the high-security Belmarsh Jail in southeast London since April 2019.

Stella Assange informed a information convention that her husband may very well be on a airplane to the US “inside days” if he loses the enchantment, with a two-day Excessive Courtroom listening to set to start subsequent Tuesday.

The scenario “extraordinarily grave”, as his psychological and bodily well being have been “in decline”, she mentioned. “If he’s extradited, he’ll die,” she added.

Julian Assange was arrested after spending seven years holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy to keep away from extradition to Sweden, the place he confronted accusations of sexual assault that have been finally dropped.

The US authorities wish to put the Australian writer on trial for divulging US navy secrets and techniques in regards to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Two judges at London’s Excessive Courtroom will hear Assange’s request to be allowed to enchantment the latest ruling approving his extradition. A single choose final June refused permission to enchantment.

But when his enchantment is profitable, Assange may have additional alternatives to argue his case earlier than the UK’s home courts, with a date set for a full enchantment listening to.

If he loses, he may have exhausted all UK appeals and can enter the method of extradition, though his group have mentioned they may enchantment to European courts.

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‘Anti-press pandemic’ 

The UK is a part of the European Courtroom of Human Rights and it’s inside the court docket’s energy to order a keep on the extradition. These are solely given in “distinctive circumstances” nonetheless.

It might additionally require the UK authorities to simply accept the order, which is unsure given its ongoing dispute with the European court docket after it blocked its plan to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Assange is accused of publishing some 700,000 confidential paperwork associated to US navy and diplomatic actions, beginning in 2010.

The US is making an attempt to convict Assange beneath the 1917 Espionage Act, which his supporters warn imply he may very well be sentenced to 175 years in jail.

The UK courts authorised the extradition request after the US vowed to not imprison him in its most excessive jail, “ADX Florence”, nor to topic him to the tough regime often called “Particular Administrative Measures”.

However Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief, mentioned Thursday that caveats included inside the guarantees meant they have been “not definitely worth the paper they’re written on”.

The impact of the case on the way forward for press freedom “can’t be underestimated”, he added.

“No journalists anyplace, together with you within the room right this moment, are protected,” he mentioned, talking of an “anti-press pandemic” spreading the world over.

Assange’s spouse Stella mentioned that she had “discovered to not be optimistic” forward of court docket rulings, and feared the potential final result.

“Julian will probably be put in a gap, up to now and so deep within the floor that I do not assume I am going to ever see him once more,” if extradited, she mentioned.

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It isn’t identified but whether or not a call will probably be delivered instantly after subsequent week’s listening to, or if will probably be reserved — nor if Assange will probably be allowed to attend in particular person.

(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is printed from a syndicated feed.)

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