A UK court rejected the US request for Julian Assange’s extradition to Washington, bringing the Wikileaks founder’s controversial case into a new light, making many question whether the motives behind the case are political.
Assange and his friends established Wikileaks in 2006 where they began publishing their hacks. Among their revelations, the group published details on various topics ranging from US drone strikes in Yemen, to corruption in the Arab world. But after the group published a huge amount of US diplomatic cables, aka ‘Cablegate’, in November 2010, the American justice system decided to open a formal investigation against Assange.
Stella Morris, partner of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, gestures as she addresses the media outside the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court, in London, Britain, January 4, 2021.