U.S. lawyers tell UK court Assange should be extradited

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Lawyers for the United States launched a fresh attempt on Wednesday to have Julian Assange extradited from Britain.

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Supporters of Assange gathered outside the court building from early on Wednesday, chanting"free Julian Assange", before his father and Stella Moris, his partner and mother of his two children, arrived.

Soon afterwards Sweden sought Assange's extradition from Britain over allegations of sex crimes. When he lost a case against extradition in 2012, he fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London and stayed there before being finally dragged out in April 2019. On Jan. 4, a British judge rejected his argument that the case was political and an assault on freedom of speech, but said he should not be extradited because his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide in a U.S. prison.

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