Assange's extradition to US denied on mental health problems

Tuesday, January 5th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

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A British judge ruled on Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges including breaking a spying law, saying his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide. Read full article

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Islander1
So what if he ends up finding a way to commit suicide? OK very sad for the 2 little kids,
but maybe that was his main reason in having them?
Jan 05th, 2021 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
The sad case of Assange has become a tale of governmental vengeance and Julian has already served his sentence in a self-imposed incarceration inside the Ecuadorian embassy.

Further prosecution is petty revenge for crimes mostly against political corruption.

Hopefully Trump will pardon him as he leaves the Whitehouse to spite Hillary.
Jan 05th, 2021 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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imoyaro
Sadly, the perverted rapist has not yet served his time. He needs a noose. ;)
Jan 06th, 2021 - 06:13 am - Link - Report abuse -1
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Terence Hill
Just because folks say so, doesn't make it so.
Jan 06th, 2021 - 09:52 am - Link - Report abuse -1
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Skip
God, we really don't want I'm back here. Hopefully he stays in the UK and lives in continual fear of the US.
Jan 08th, 2021 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse -1
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Terence Hill
”The indictment of Assange is a blueprint for making journalists into felons By Glenn Greenwald
The U.S. government unveiled an 18-count indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, charging him under the 1917 Espionage Act for his role in the 2010 publication of a trove of secret documents relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and diplomatic communications regarding dozens of nations. So extreme and unprecedented are the indictment’s legal theories and likely consequences that it shocked and alarmed even many of Assange’s most virulent critics.
With these new charges, the Trump administration is aggressively and explicitly seeking to obliterate the last reliable buffer protecting journalism in the United States from being criminalized, a step that no previous administration, no matter how hostile to journalistic freedom, was willing to take. The U.S. government has been eager to prosecute Assange since the 2010 leaks.
The argument offered by both the Trump administration that Assange isn’t a journalist at all and thus deserves no free press protections.
In a 1977 Supreme Court opinion documenting the limitless scope of the constitutional free press guarantee, Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote: “In short, the First Amendment does not ‘belong’ to any definable category of persons or entities: It belongs to all who exercise its freedoms.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/05/28/indictment-assange-is-blueprint-making-journalists-into-felons/#comm
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