A magistrates court in London has issued a formal order to extradite Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges there, effectively sentencing the WikiLeaks founder to death.
The ruling reverses a previous ruling that denied the US extradition to the US based on Assange’s poor mental state and the inhumane conditions in American high-security prisons.
Rt.com reports: WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said the UK court was issuing a “death sentence” to Assange by passing its decision. He is facing up to 175 years in prison under the espionage charges he faces in the US indictment.
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The legal team defending Assange said it will make representations to Secretary Patel, asking for a chance to make an appeal against the court order. The lawyers said they may appeal to the High Court, even if the secretary grants the extradition.
The previous British rejection of the extradition request was issued by the same court in January 2021. The American side successfully appealed the decision by challenging the testimony of defense experts, and by offering to give formal assurances that Assange would not be put under the worst security regime during his prosecution in the US.
Assange, who is best known for his organization’s pro-transparency activism and its publication of leaked classified documents, which has exposed the dark secrets of many governments, has been in British custody since April 2019. He is kept at the high-security Belmarsh prison, dubbed “British Guantanamo” for its role as the incarceration site of the most dangerous criminals in the UK. He had previously spent seven years locked inside Ecuador’s embassy in London, before a new government in Quito revoked his asylum.
During his self-exile at the embassy, the US unsealed its case against Assange and filed a request to the UK to hand him over for prosecution.
The prosecution in Britain has sparked international criticism against the British government by advocates of media freedom. Assange supporters see him as a prisoner of conscience, who is being persecuted by Washington and London for his work as a publisher. The precedent sends a chilling message to any journalist wishing to investigate misconduct by Western governments that their lives may be ruined in retribution, critics said.
On March 23, Assange married Stella Moris, with whom he has two children. The ceremony was conducted inside the prison, and only a limited group of people was allowed to attend.
Julian Assange has been a target for the US since 2010, when Wikileaks published a trove of State Department cables and Pentagon documents that depicted alleged war crimes committed by US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has been accused of attempting to hack Pentagon computers and has been charged under the Espionage Act, which prohibits obtaining information related to national defense which can be used to undermine US interests or benefit foreign nations.
Assange has denied all the charges against him, with his legal defense team arguing that he had not been under US jurisdiction and had engaged in completely legal journalism. They also deny allegations of conspiring to hack Pentagon computers, insisting that the case is based on discredited testimony of the convicted Icelandic criminal ‘Siggi the Hacker’.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Well now he understands the British.
175 years for the crime of journalism. 5 years for breathing. 5 years for collecting rain water. You get my drift.j
He won’t need a green card. PR starus shortcut.
It is america that is going to die. This is the NWO, plan: The same weapon used on Tonga underwater volcano, will be used on Yellowstone supervolcano to make it blow. Then wherever the volcano did not destroy america, those parts will have all the large cities nuked. At the same time, Russian and Chinese subs off the east and west coasts, will hit america with the tsunami causing nukes, that will kick off earthquakes as well. Even the new Madrid earthquake zone will be set off. That is what is meant in the Bible: that Mystery Babylon the great, (america) will be destroyed in one day. Then the Russian Chinese and Israeli armies with 2 other allies, will take the entire world and ww3 will end in 3 weeks. Most nations will surrender, because every leader of almost every nation has been replaced with a NWO 33 degree freemason illuminati demonic entity. After that, the carnage will begin. The pathetic losers who call themselves the “elite” are miserable, because they sold their souls for wealth fame and power, and now all they have left if eternity in Hell to look forward to. They want to bring hell to earth, for everyone on earth because they are envious beyond comprehension, that all of you “the great unwashed”, as they call you, useless eaters, (useless and unproductive because you don’t serve satan as they do) have souls, and will spend eternity in Heaven. They are going to eternal Hell, every one of them and Musk too, but they hate Assange, because he still has a soul and has earned his way to Heaven by telling the TRUTH. They can never get their souls back. They want all of you to have a taste of the Hell that they have earned, that is all they will ever have for eternity. Jesus will return in 2023. Hold on and pray. No matter what they do to us, be stronger than it and save your souls. Heaven is the most beautiful and blissful place, where just being there you are in ecstasy, beyond anything you could ever imagine. Those ugly monstrous demonic “elite” serpents who rule the world will never know it. Julian Assange will. That is why they hate him and torture and abuse him.