LONDON - British police dragged Julian Assange from the Ecuadorean embassy last Thursday after his asylum was revoked, ending his seven-year stay there and opening the way for his extradition to the United States.
He shot to fame in early 2010 when WikiLeaks published a classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters in Baghdad that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff. The British criminal action against Assange will take precedence over extradition proceedings although Nick Vamos, lawyer at London-based firm Peters & Peters and former head of extradition at Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service, said in practice it would make little difference.
“Even though technically it would be a re-issued request, in effect it would be just a repeat of the request that was issued many years ago and therefore it would be treated as if it was the earliest one,” he said. Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, was jailed on March 8 after being held in contempt by a judge in Virginia for refusing to testify before a grand jury in what is widely believed to be related to the Assange investigation.
Prosecutors ended the preliminary investigation into allegations of sexual molestation and unlawful coercion in 2015 as the statute of limitations had already passed, but kept open the rape probe. The statute of limitation for rape is 10 years, a deadline which would be reached in the mid-August next year.“Everybody can challenge an extradition request on the basis it would be contrary to their human rights for them to be extradited,” Vamos said.
The establishment hates democracy. They hate the BoR. They hate being exposed. Especially for massive international crimes. CollateralMurder
Explain why he wasn't charged with hacking the DNC? The Russians were charged. But not Wiki Leaks, Suppose that information is wrong and he only published it, had nothing to do with the hacking. That changes everything.
Trump might give him a PARDON!
Should go to Sweden.
Assange is a strange little man but no fool. He's had long enough to create a contingency plan. By the time the plane wheels hit US soil, there will be massive amounts of classified and incriminating documents online from multiple sources around the globe.
In my opinion, the potential extradition of Assange will be a political battle in the UK & not about the legality of the case to extradite him to the US or Sweden. PM May will be opposed by the left regardless of the position she takes. The court case will take yrs.
i highly doubt it
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