WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been ordered to be extradited to the US by the British government. Priti Patel, the British Home Secretary, signed that decision on Friday, international news agencies and international news agencies report the BBC† WikiLeaks announces it will appeal.
The judge approved Assange’s extradition in April, but the government had yet to confirm that decision. The US wants to try Assange for, among other things, espionage and hacking government websites. Beginning in 2006, WikiLeaks published large amounts of confidential information. Assange was also previously suspected of rape in Sweden, but the investigations have been stopped because too much time had passed.
A dark day for press freedom and British democracy WikiLeaks responds on Twitter. “Patel had the opportunity to do good, but will now be remembered as an accomplice in the US mission to criminalize investigative journalism.”
Disappeared Sources
The British newspaper The Guardian expected that the lawsuit surrounding the extradition appeal will again focus on human rights such as freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial. According to WikiLeaks, Assange published according to journalistic principles and the trial against him is politically motivated.
The US fights that: In previous hearings, representatives said publications by Assange have put people at risk. Because of information in the hundreds of thousands of documents that ended up on WikiLeaks, sources in the Middle East are said to have disappeared.
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