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UK court to rule on whether WikiLeaks’ Assange can challenge extradition to US
During a two-day hearing last month, Assange’s lawyers argued that he was a secrecy-busting journalist who exposed US military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sending him to the United States, they said, would expose him to a politically motivated prosecution and risk a “flagrant denial of justice”.
The US government said that Assange’s actions went way beyond those of a journalist gathering information and put lives at risk in his bid to solicit, steal and indiscriminately publish classified government documents.
The Australian computer expert has been held in a British high-security prison for the past five years.
Assange’s family and supporters say his physical and mental health have suffered during more than a decade of legal battles, including taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London from 2012 until 2019.
“Julian is a political prisoner and he has to be released,” said Stella Assange, who married the WikiLeaks founder in prison in 2022.
Assange’s lawyers say that he could face 175 years in prison if convicted, though American authorities have said the sentence is likely to be much shorter.