Skip to content
Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Primary Menu Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us
  • Featured

UK Court’s Nod To Assange Extradition To US

Apr 20, 2022 | Pratirodh Bureau

FILE PHOTO: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 52, was released from London’s Belmarsh Prison, where he has spent more than five years and later was seen at a London airport boarding a private plane. He left around 5pm on Monday London time

A British judge on Wednesday formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. The case will now go to Britain’s interior minister for a decision, and the WikiLeaks founder still has legal avenues of appeal.

The order, which brings extradition closer, comes after the U.K. Supreme Court last month refused Assange permission to appeal against a lower court’s ruling that he could be extradited.

A judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court issued the order in a brief hearing, as Assange watched by video link from Belmarsh Prison. Home Secretary Priti Patel will now decide whether to grant the extradition.

The move doesn’t exhaust the legal options for Assange, who has sought for years to avoid a trial in the U.S. on charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of a huge trove of classified documents more than a decade ago.

His lawyers have four weeks to make submissions to Patel, and can also seek to appeal to the High Court.

Assange lawyer Mark Summers told the court that the legal team had serious submissions to make.

The U.S. has asked British authorities to extradite Assange so he can stand trial on 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse. American prosecutors say Assange unlawfully helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.

Supporters and lawyers for Assange, 50, argue that he was acting as a journalist and is entitled to First Amendment protections of freedom of speech for publishing documents that exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. They argue that his case is politically motivated.

A British district court judge had initially rejected a U.S. extradition request on the grounds that Assange was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions. U.S. authorities later provided assurances that the WikiLeaks founder wouldn’t face the severe treatment that his lawyers said would put his physical and mental health at risk.

In December, the High Court overturned the lower court’s decision, saying that the U.S. promises were enough to guarantee that Assange would be treated humanely.

Assange’s lawyers say he could face up to 175 years in jail if he is convicted in the U.S., though American authorities have said the sentence was likely to be much lower than that.

Assange has been held at Britain’s high-security Belmarsh Prison in London since 2019, when he was arrested for skipping bail during a separate legal battle. Before that, he spent seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.

Sweden dropped the sex crimes investigations in November 2019 because so much time had elapsed.

Last month, Assange and his partner Stella Moris married in a prison ceremony.

Tags: julian assange, Julian Assange extradition, Pratirodh, wikileaks

Continue Reading

Previous Covid Worry: India’s R Value Over One For First Time In 3 Months
Next Provide ‘Warning’ Label On Junk Food Packs: Experts To FSSAI

More Stories

  • Featured

Iran May Now Turn To Asymmetrical Warfare – Raising Risk Of Proxy Attacks

2 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Book Review: A Fascinating Book On India’s Rivers And Their Travails

8 hours ago Shalini
  • Featured

Giving Floral Waste A Second Life

10 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Iran May Now Turn To Asymmetrical Warfare – Raising Risk Of Proxy Attacks
  • Book Review: A Fascinating Book On India’s Rivers And Their Travails
  • Giving Floral Waste A Second Life
  • US Bombs Iran’s Nuclear Sites: What Led To It, What Happens Next?
  • Negotiating Realities In Frosty India-Bangladesh Relations
  • Of India’s Digital Divide And The Consequent Welfare Bias
  • Running On Sunshine, Running Out Of Water
  • M.B. Chitampalli, Forests’ Living Encyclopedia, Dies At 93
  • Green Tribunal Issues Order States/UTs To Stop Concretising Tree Bases
  • Why India’s Poverty Decline May Not Be What It Appears To Be
  • Trump–Munir Lunch Is A Huge Blow To Indian Diplomacy: Congress
  • How India’s Migrant Labour Struggles During Times Of Crisis
  • Farms Turn Femme But Women Still Plough Through Power Centres
  • PM Must Tell All-Party Meeting What He Told US President Trump: Congress
  • Iran-Israel ‘Threshold War’ Has Rewritten Rules Of Nuclear Escalation
  • Children’s Literature Joins The Conversation On Climate Change
  • Instead Of ‘Achhe Din’, Days Of Debt Arrived: Cong’s Dig At Modi Govt
  • A Song Of Rock And Ice
  • Access & Benefit Sharing Regulations Impinge On Rights Of Local Communities
  • Making Cuts In Implementation Of MGNREGA A Crime Against Constitution

Search

Main Links

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us

Related Stroy

  • Featured

Iran May Now Turn To Asymmetrical Warfare – Raising Risk Of Proxy Attacks

2 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Book Review: A Fascinating Book On India’s Rivers And Their Travails

8 hours ago Shalini
  • Featured

Giving Floral Waste A Second Life

10 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

US Bombs Iran’s Nuclear Sites: What Led To It, What Happens Next?

1 day ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Negotiating Realities In Frosty India-Bangladesh Relations

1 day ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Iran May Now Turn To Asymmetrical Warfare – Raising Risk Of Proxy Attacks
  • Book Review: A Fascinating Book On India’s Rivers And Their Travails
  • Giving Floral Waste A Second Life
  • US Bombs Iran’s Nuclear Sites: What Led To It, What Happens Next?
  • Negotiating Realities In Frosty India-Bangladesh Relations
Copyright © All rights reserved. | CoverNews by AF themes.