The High Court of London has allowed the journalist to appeal his delivery in the next 14 days before the Supreme Court, the highest British judicial instance, which must decide whether or not to admit his case.
the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has scored a legal victory this Monday that allows him to continue fighting in the United Kingdom against his extradition to the United States, which claims him for 18 crimes of espionage and computer intrusion which, according to the defense, carry 175 years in prison in that country.
The High Court of London today allowed Assange to appeal his surrender in the next 14 days before the Supreme Court, the highest British court, which must decide whether or not to admit your case.
Judges Ian Burnett and Tim Holroyde, who on December 10 authorized the extradition of the activist by upholding a US appeal in an appeal process, recognized in their brief ruling that there is a legal aspect raised by the defense which may deserve to be examined by the Supreme Court.
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If the appeal is admitted, the Supreme Court would have to analyze whether it is acceptable for Washington to present during the appeal process last October, and not in the initial trial of first instance in January 2021, your guarantees about the treatment that Assange will receive on US soil.
In their ruling today, the judges considered that Assange’s appeal should be denied, but since the Supreme Court has never been pronounced on this particular legal point, they have left it up to you to decide whether you want to examine it.
Last December 10, the Superior Court sided with Washington by accepting his appeal against the January ruling of Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who had denied the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder after considering that he presented suicide risk.
Burnett and Holroyde pointed out at that time that, before pronouncing his opinion, Baraitser should have informed the United States Justice of his intentions, so that already then he could present guarantees about the prison regime that would be applied to the accused in order to minimize the risks for your health.
The judges added that, in any case, the guarantees presented a posteriori before the Court of Appeal “they are enough” and therefore authorized the delivery of the journalist.
During the trial on October 27 and 28, prosecutor James Lewis, representing the United States, guaranteed that, if extradited, Assange will not be subjected to “special administrative measures” such as having visits or correspondence banned, or he would be booked into the ADX Florence maximum-security prison in Colorado, unless he later did something to deserve it.
In addition, Washington promised that, while in custody, the journalist would receive the appropriate psychological treatment and, if convicted, could serve it in his native Australia.
If the process continues in the Supreme Court, the defense will try to demonstrate what it already alleged then, that these guarantees were submitted late and are not strong enough.
The United States is pursuing Assange, who has more than a decade confined in England Despite not having been convicted of any crime, for the publications on his WikiLeaks portal, which in 2010 and 2011 exposed abuses in that country in its Guantánamo detention center (Cuba) as well as alleged war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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