Tag: Dunja Mijatovic

• Friday, February 21st 2020 - 08:32 UTC

  European human rights chief against extraditing Assange: “chilling effect on press freedom”'

  

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States because it would have a chilling effect on press freedom, a European human rights chief said on Thursday. Assange, 48, is in prison in London, where an extradition hearing begins next week. The US authorities want to try him on 18 counts including to hack government computers and violating an espionage law.