UK Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited to U.S. on Spying Charges

[mystery-ak]

UK Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited to U.S. on Spying Charges

Simon Kent 10 Dec 2021

Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States after a UK appeals court ruled Friday the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health can withstand the American criminal justice system.

AP reports the High Court in London ruled U.S. assurances were enough to guarantee Assange would be treated humanely and directed a lower court judge to send the extradition request to the home secretary for review where the final decision on whether to extradite Assange will be made.

“There is no reason why this court should not accept the assurances as meaning what they say,″ the High Court ruling stated. “There is no basis for assuming that the USA has not given the assurances in good faith.”

Assange’s fiancé, Stella Moris, used social media to label the decision a “grave miscarriage of justice” and said lawyers would file an appeal “at the earliest possible moment.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/12/10/uk-court-rules-julian-assange-can-be-extradited-to-u-s-on-spying-charges/

[DefiantMassRINO]

I hope the boys in Guantanamo Bay are preparing a cell for that Ruskie spy.

[mountaineer]

UK ruling on extraditing Wikileaks’ Assange ‘seriously damages journalism’
December 10, 2021 8:35 AM EST

New York, December 10, 2021–The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed deep disappointment at a British court’s decision to uphold the United States Justice Department’s appeal to extradite Julian Assange, which allows the U.S. to continue pursuing the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder, according to news reports.

“On the same day the Nobel Peace Prize honors journalists, a UK court ruled that the United States can extradite Julian Assange, a move that seriously damages journalism,” said CPJ Deputy Executive Director Robert Mahoney. “The U.S. Justice Department’s dogged pursuit of the WikiLeaks founder has set a harmful legal precedent for prosecuting reporters simply for interacting with their sources. The Biden administration pledged at its Summit for Democracy this week to support journalism. It could start by removing the threat of prosecution under the Espionage Act now hanging over the heads of investigative journalists everywhere.”

If extradited and convicted in the United States, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison on 18 charges under both the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, CPJ has documented. ... CPJ

[mountaineer]

Bokhari: Julian Assange Is Anarcho-Tyranny’s Victim Number One
Allum Bokhari
11 Dec 2021405


In a recent speech, French presidential contender Eric Zemmour asked a pertinent question: “Why is the State so powerless against criminals, and yet so ruthless with honest people?”

Zemmour was observing a trend that many others on the right have noticed, but that liberals seem blissfully unaware of — the trend of anarcho-tyranny. Anarcho-tyranny refers to a state in which the deserving face no enforcement of laws, while the undeserving face the full force of state tyranny.

An outside observer might assume that the United States has entered a state of anarchism, with the government unwilling or unable to enforce its laws, even against violent criminals and murderers.

They would be wrong. The fact of the matter is, the U.S. government is as powerful as it has ever been. It has simply decided that only political dissidents will feel its full force.

No one knows this better than Julian Assange, who recently lost an appeal against extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States.

As Breitbart News previously reported, the case that Assange deliberately endangered U.S. personnel is on shaky ground:

    While he was alive, neoconservative Senator John McCain claimed that leaks provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning, which included the diplomatic cables, caused U.S. foreign sources to be harmed.

    However, it was in fact an error on the part of a Guardian journalist, not WikiLeaks, that that led to the full unredacted cables leaking to third parties on the web that WikiLeaks published them as well — and not before Assange attempted to warn the office of Hillary Clinton, then U.S. Secretary of State about the unintended leak of the cables.

In the eyes of the political establishment, the primary crime of Assange and the organization he founded, WikiLeaks, is that he embarrassed them and their mission of world domination.

Because of this, he will face the full force of the law.  ... Breitbart

[Kamaji]

Didn't he just suffer a stroke?  That might alter the U.K.'s view on extradition.