We still have to wait to know the future of Julian Assange. The last hearing of the appeal which will establish whether the founder of WikiLeaks It will be extradited or less in United Stateswhere it will be processed for dissemination classified documents on American military activities that could cost them up to 175 years in prison. But the decision of the judges, who have not provided any type of indication on the matter, will arrive only in a few days, after in-depth reflection on the arguments presented by the parties.
Even today the activist, who has been locked up in prison since 2019 Belmarsha London, did not appear in court, after his lawyers had made it known that his health conditions were not optimal also due to five years of imprisonment in a maximum security prison. The forfeit was then confirmed by WikiLeaks on the organisation’s X profile, where Assange is shown as a prisoner in photos, evidently aged, with long hair and a white beard. And he is referred to once again as “a political prisoner“. “Julian Assange – we read in the post which presents today’s hearing as a sort of ‘day Assange, the message continues, “risks a 175-year sentence if extradited to the US for having published” embarrassing documents stolen from American archives.
The lawyers James Lewis e Claire Dobbin representing the United States continue to maintain that his extradition is necessary because the release of the documents has put national security and “lives” at risk. Dobbin, in particular, underlined that the Australian journalist’s extradition request is motivated by his alleged actions and not by his political ideas. And he added that some sources cited in the documents made public have had to face “profound consequences“, including arrest, loss of property, threats and harassment. “This was not a slip or a mistake, this was the publication of a large amount of classified material,” Dobbin said at the hearing. In written statements, the lawyers described the leak as “one of the largest releases of classified information in US history.” Furthermore, “by publishing this information on the Wikileaks website” Assange “caused a serious risk that the sources mentioned could suffer serious physical harm”. Dobbin then noted that “the US administration obviously changed during these proceedings, but nevertheless the charge against the appellant remains standing. Because it is based on law and evidence, not politics.”
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