The judges accepted some of the Wikileaks founder’s defense arguments and set a new hearing for May. During this period, Washington must provide guarantees that suspects will not be sentenced to death or that freedom of the press will be respected.
The High Court of London decided on Tuesday to postpone its decision on the appeal in the Australian journalist’s case Julian Assangefounder of the Wikileaks portal, that is will not be extradited to the United States immediately.
The two magistrates who analyzed the case partially considered Assange’s defense arguments and announced a future hearing in May if the United States cannot first provide a body of evidence. Guarantee: that the suspect No will be sentenced capital punishmentThat No will a unfair trial and that the First Amendment of the North American Constitution will be respected, which provides for the press freedom.
The US government therefore has several weeks to submit these demands. If he fails to do so, Assange could proceed with his extradition appeal.
The Australian journalist therefore receives a partial oxygen balloon, to the extent that a frontal rejection would already have implied political approval of the extradition. In this case, the founder of Wikileaks would only have to go to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
The UK government gave the green light to the transfer in June 2022, but Assange, who has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for almost seven years, has tried to block it in every way possible. He is charged with violating the US Espionage Act and faces up to 175 years in prison for leaking thousands of classified documents.
Source: EITB
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