Julian Assange: British justice gives free rein to the extradition to the US of the founder of WikiLeaks

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest judicial instance in the country, dismissed on Monday an appeal filed by the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assangewhich gives the green light for his extradition to the United States.

The case now goes to the British Home Secretary, Pritti Patelwhich must authorize delivery, although the defense is expected to appeal to other parts of the process, which could slow it down.

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The 50-year-old Australian, who He is serving preventive detention in the London prison of belmarshhad appealed a ruling of December 10 of the Superior Court, which approved his extradition to the US, by approving in turn an appeal from Washington on a ruling of January 21, 2021.

The Supreme has today rejected the request of Assange with the argument that it does not raise “any debatable legal point”, which means that the Superior’s ruling remains in force and the deportation can be carried out if the minister ratifies it.

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However, during this long legal process, the defense of the computer scientist has said on several occasions that there were aspects of the case that had not been examined and that he planned to appeal them if the time came.

Washington appealed in December the ruling of January 21, 2021 of the judge of first instance Vanessa Baraitser, who denied the delivery of the founder of WikiLeaks considering that it presents a risk of suicide and that prison conditions in the US could exacerbate it.

The judges of the Superior then agreed with the US, agreeing that Baraitser should have asked them at that time for guarantees about the prison regime that would be applied to the accused in order to minimize the risks to his health.

They also considered the safeguards presented to them a posteriori by the US Justice to be sufficient, which included, among others, offering medical care to the “ex-hacker” and not imposing extreme isolation measures on him from the outset.

The decision of the Supreme Court is known after Assange’s girlfriend and mother of his two youngest children, Stella Moris, announced on Sunday that both could marry on March 23 in Belmarshafter receiving authorization from the penitentiary.

The United States requires the journalist to prosecute him for 18 crimes of espionage and computer intrusion which, according to the defense, can lead to up to 175 years in prison in that country.

These crimes are related to the publications of your portal WikiLeakswhich in 2010 and 2011 exposed US abuses at its Guantánamo (Cuba) detention center as well as alleged war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Source: Elcomercio

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