Julian Assange has formally begun his fight against being handed over to the US, where he faces accusations he helped leak hundreds of thousands of classified documents.
In the lead-up to the hearing, Mr Assange, who is being held in Belmarsh Prison in London, has received high-profile support, including from Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. After a visit to the prison yesterday, Mr Shipton criticised the "plague of malice", which he said "emanates from the Crown Prosecution Service" towards Mr Assange.
He called for the extradition to be stopped "in the interests of 300 years of modernity, 300 years of trying to establish human rights and civil liberties in the west and around the world".
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