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Re: US authorities win their latest bid to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 10 Dec 21 10:48 PM | 12 view(s)
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The article could be a bit clearer.

The UK judge said that putting Assange into one of the US' supermax prisons wasn't something UK justice could allow because they are inhumane and degrading, or words to that effect.

The US has agreed it will not send him to such a prison, and so his extradition will be permitted.

I don't really understand why US justice is quite so mechanical and brutal. Prison doesn't need to be nice. But I don't see why it needs to grind people into the dust.

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US authorities win their latest bid to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
By: clo2 in ALEA
Fri, 10 Dec 21 12:51 PM 		Msg. 44120 of 54959

US authorities win their latest bid to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

(CNN)US authorities have won their bid to overturn a British judge's ruling that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to face charges in the United States.

The 50-year-old Australian has been charged in the US under the Espionage Act for his role in publishing classified military and diplomatic cables.
Friday's ruling overturns the ruling of a British judge in January that granting the US request to extradite Assange would be "oppressive" by reason of his mental health.

Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled then that the "special administrative measures" Assange would most likely be held in would have a severe negative impact on his mental health.

Assange is wanted in the US on 18 criminal charges after WikiLeaks published thousands of classified files and diplomatic cables in 2010. He is being held at Belmarsh Prison in London. If convicted, he faces up to 175 years in prison.

Assange was arrested in April 2019 when British authorities entered the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he had been holed up for seven years, and took him into custody on a US extradition warrant.
This is a developing story -- more to come.

http://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/europe/julian-assange-extradition-appeal-ruling-intl/index.html

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