Accepted the appeal of the Americans, the case will now be re-examined. According to the British judges, the US government has offered sufficient guarantees that the detainee will receive adequate treatment. Girlfriend Stella Morris: “We will appeal immediately”
LONDON. The London High Court overturned the first instance ruling issued last January which denied the extradition of Julian Assange from Great Britain to the United States. The appeal by the American legal team was thus accepted, which opposed the no to the delivery of the former red primrose on the basis of an alleged danger of suicide linked – according to an expert opinion – to the foreseeable judicial and prison treatment. It is therefore expected that the case will be returned to the lower court for a new hearing.
The British judges then accepted assurances about Assange’s treatment in prison, once he was extradited to the US, made by the American authorities to avoid a feared suicide. Lord Burnett has in fact declared: “This risk is in our opinion excluded from the reassurances that are offered.” And he added: “This conclusion is sufficient to determine the appeal in favor of the US.” Assange is expected to appeal the decision. Meanwhile, cries of protest have been raised among the many supporters of WikiLeaks who find themselves in front of the Royal Courts of Justice in the British capital.
WikiLeaks came to prominence when it released a US military video in 2010, which showed a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters staff. Assange’s organization then released thousands of classified secret files and diplomatic cables, often of overriding public interest, but US prosecutors view Assange as a danger to the state, whose actions have seriously endangered the lives of agents named in the leaks published. Recent years have seen Assange and Wikileaks at the center of very hard controversy, in America and in Europe, because the organization is mentioned numerous times in the Mueller report, with entire pages of omissions, on the interference of Russia in the elections in favor of Trump. Wikileaks according to the Report was in contact with another organization that published leaks that damaged Hillary Clinton in the race against Trump, DCleaks: DCleaks was a site that presented itself as independent journalism but, it will only be discovered later, was a direct front of the Gru , the military intelligence services of Russia. But Assange is not accused of this affair, but of alleged cybercrimes dating back to 2010 and his professional relationship with whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
Stella Morris, Assange’s girlfriend, immediately announces: «We will appeal as soon as possible», and speaks of «a serious judicial error».
Moscow protests over the sentence against Assange. Russia – reports the Ria Novosti agency – has defined the verdict of the High Court of London that overturned the first instance sentence that denied the extradition of Assange to the United States “shameful”. The West, denounced the foreign ministry of Moscow, “thus celebrated in a worthy way the World Human Rights Day” which occurs today.
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