British High Court wants more U.S. assurances on Julian Assange, extending his extradition fight

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange was on Tuesday given a chance to continue his fight against extradition to the United States after the High Court in London said the U.S. needed to provide more assurances.Thomson Reuters WikiLeaks' Julian Assange was on Tuesday given a chance to continue his fight against extradition to the United States after the High Court in London said the U.S. needed to provide more assurances.

In their ruling, two senior judges said he had a real prospect of successfully appealing against extradition on a number of grounds.Stella Assange accuses U.S. of valuing state secrets above justiceIn a speech to U.K. supporters of her husband, Julian Assange, Stella Assange denounced the U.S. government for prioritizing the protection of state secrets over exposing criminal activity and details that leave it susceptible to scrutiny. Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the U.S.

Judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson said that if no assurances are filed by the U.S., they will grant Assange permission to appeal extradition on grounds including breach of freedom of expression, and because he might receive the death penalty. The U.S. argues the WikiLeaks' revelations imperilled the lives of their agents and there was no excuse for his criminality. U.S. prosecutors have said a sentence in his case in the event of a conviction would be no more than 63 months.Assange's many supporters hail him as an anti-establishment hero who is being persecuted, despite being a journalist, for exposing U.S. wrongdoing and alleged war crimes.

It then released more than 90,000 classified U.S. military documents on the war in Afghanistan, and about 400,000 secret U.S. files on the Iraq war. The two leaks represented the largest security breaches of their kind in U.S. military history. It followed these up with the release of 250,000 secret diplomatic cables from U.S. embassies around the world, with some of the information published by newspapers such as The New York Times and Britain's Guardian.

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