Julian Assange

Her comments came after the Home Secretary signed an order to extradite Mr Assange to the US on espionage charges. The WikiLeaks founder, who is wanted in the ...

He is a journalist and a publisher, and he is being punished for doing his job. The fact is if he is extradited to the United States, the conditions he will be under will be so oppressive,” she told reporters. He has committed no crime and is not a criminal.

He is being held in a high security unit at Belmarsh prison and has been in custody since his eviction from the Ecuadorean embassy in 2019. The Australian ...

Mr Assange retains the normal 14-day right to appeal. A statement posted on Twitter read: ‘Today is not the end of the fight. ‘Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the US he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health.’

The US has been seeking to put Mr Assange on trial since his website in 2010 published a series of leaks from army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning which ...

Mr Assange retains the normal 14-day right to appeal. Extradition requests are only sent to the home secretary once a judge decides it can proceed after considering various aspects of the case. He is a journalist and a publisher and he is being punished for doing his job.” He was arrested on leaving the embassy that year and has since remained in Belmarsh high-security prison. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “He has committed no crime and is not a criminal.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the US is approved by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel.

He sought asylum in 2012 in the embassy, fearing US prosecution, and stayed there for seven years. "The UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange," the Home Office added. The Supreme Court ruled in March that Mr Assange's case raised no legal questions over assurances the US had given to the UK about how he was likely to be treated. It said the courts found extradition would not be "incompatible with his human rights" and that while in the US "he will be treated appropriately". Mr Assange's legal team claimed classified documents published by Wikileaks, which related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, exposed US wrongdoing and were in the public interest. Mr Assange is wanted by the American authorities over documents leaked in 2010 and 2011, which the US says broke the law and endangered lives.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has signed an order to extradite Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges, the Home Office has confirmed.

Mr Assange retains the normal 14-day right to appeal. “There are potential further avenues to appeal that he could utilise. His instinct is to fight back and so is mine. we have to fight back. It is unlikely to be the end of Mr Assange in the UK.” In a statement, the Home Office said the UK courts found it would not be "oppressive, unjust of an abuse of process" to extradite the Australian.

UK govt agreed to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face charges over alleged leak of classified documents related to wars in Iraq, ...

He is a journalist and a publisher, and he is being punished for doing his job,” she added. “This is a dark day for press freedom and for British democracy,” it said. It is only the beginning of a new legal battle. “Today is not the end of the fight. Extradition requests are only sent to the Home Secretary once a judge decides it can proceed after considering various aspects of the case,” the spokesperson said. Mr. Assange retains the normal 14-day right to appeal,” a UK Home Office spokesperson said.

Home Secretary has signed an order to send him to Virginia to face espionage charges and a potential 175-year jail sentence.

His instinct is to fight back and so is mine. She added: “It is very difficult to describe what it’s like as a family. “It will drive him to take his own life.

“In this case, the UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange. Nor have they found that ...

It will drive him to take his own life. He has reasons to fight while he’s here. But Julian is a fighter.” Their revenge is to try to disappear him into the darkest recesses of their prison system for the rest of his life to deter others from holding governments to account. We will use every avenue to appeal this decision. He is a journalist and a publisher, and he is being punished for doing his job. Julian’s freedom is coupled to all our freedoms. A WikiLeaks spokesman said: “This is a dark day for press freedom and for British democracy. “We will not let that happen. Today is not the end of the fight. Extradition requests are only sent to the Home Secretary once a judge decides it can proceed after considering various aspects of the case. Mr Assange retains the normal 14-day right to appeal.

The WikiLeaks founder will face 18 federal counts — whenever he's brought to a U.S. courthouse in Virginia. For now, he has at least one more avenue of ...

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The decision by Priti Patel, the home secretary, to extradite the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US ought to worry anyone who cares about journalism ...

Instead, Ms Patel has dealt a blow to press freedom and against the public, who have a right to know what their governments are doing in their name. It is not too late for the US to drop the charges. To keep track of him, the authorities could have insisted that he be electronically tagged and monitored. Her predecessor Theresa May halted the extradition proceedings of Gary McKinnon, who hacked the US Department of Defense. The UK could have decided that Mr Assange faces an unacceptably high risk of prolonged solitary confinement in a US maximum security prison. They revealed horrifying abuses by the US and other governments that would not otherwise have been disclosed. He faces up to 175 years in jail if found guilty by a US court.

The WikiLeaks founder will face 18 federal counts — whenever he's brought to a U.S. courthouse in Virginia. For now, he has at least one more avenue of ...

It also says the charges aren't a response to him publishing U.S. secrets in bulk, but to revealing specific confidential information about people facing dangerous reprisals. The U.S. government uses the network to share classified information and material. The least serious charge Assange faces is the first one leveled against him: conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. For one thing, they note, the information he published was true. WikiLeaks has published a massive number of documents on its website and has also given information to journalists. Assange has insisted he was acting as a journalist, working for transparency and exposing secrets. At the time, he was concerned both about U.S. espionage charges and also an extradition request over rape allegations in Sweden (which have since been dropped). In March, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled Assange couldn't appeal the lower court's ruling against him, saying his case "didn't raise an arguable point of law." The most serious counts against him include conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information. But the U.S. appealed that decision — and won. "This is disappointing news that should concern anyone who cares about the First Amendment and the right to publish," Assange's attorney, Barry Pollack, said. A U.S. prosecution of Assange "would be unprecedented and unconstitutional," the ACLU's Ben Wizner said last December, "and would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations."

The WikiLeaks founder will appeal the UK Home Office's decision to extradite him to the US.

The judge has accepted US assurances that Assange won’t face solitary confinement and will have access to psychological treatment. “Assange may have at least one more avenue of appeal, so he may not be on a flight to the United States just yet,” Trevor Timm, executive director of the group Freedom of Press, said in a statement. “This is a dark day for Press freedom and for British democracy,” WikiLeaks said in a statement shared on Twitter. “Julian did nothing wrong.

Stella Moris tells The Independent one-time journalist Boris Johnson throwing former colleagues under bus and damagaging press freedom.

“Boris Johnson used to be a journalist, by failing to uphold press freedoms he's effectively throwing his former colleagues under the bus,” she said. “The injustice of the case is so grave that it can be difficult to comprehend. A judge in London initially dismissed the extradition request, saying she could not be certain the US authorities would prevent Mr Assange from killing himself if he was sent into a so-called “SuperMax” jail. We are fighting for his freedom because his life depends on him regaining his freedom, and extradition will cost him his life. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence to time served and she was released from a military prison in Kansas. He fought extradition to Sweden, where police said they wanted to investigate him over two accusations of sexual assault.