Julian Assange

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Analysis Julian Assange has lost a legal scrap in court, this time over the US government's attempt to expand its grounds for extraditing him from England to stand trial in America. Uncle Sam is ultimately hoping to overturn a decision made in January blocking Assange's extradition on mental health grounds.…

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Dozens of Assange supporters gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London. LONDON: A British judge on Wednesday gave the US government extra grounds to appeal a refusal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, after it argued the initial ruling relied on a witness who misled court. District…

LONDON (Reuters) - A London judge on Wednesday widened the scope of a U.S. appeal against a block on the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from Britain and will hear the renewed bid in late October. A judge ruled in January that Assange should not be extradited to the…

The US won the right to challenge evidence from a medical expert who found that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be at high risk of suicide if extradited to the US to face hacking and espionage charges. Two high court judges ruled today that the US had an arguable case…

The US can continue its appeal against the decision not to extradite Julian Assange, a court has ruled, as his partner said the family had received death threats and pleaded for their "nightmare" to end. In January, judge Vanessa Baraitser concluded that the WikiLeaks founder, 50, should not be sent…

10 August 2021, 10:16 UTC Ahead of the preliminary appeal hearing in London’s High Court tomorrow on the decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the US, Amnesty International has renewed its call on US authorities to drop the charges against him. The organisation’s Europe Director, Nils Muižnieks, said: “This…

Assange fled to Ecuador’s embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to the US, but his asylum status was later revoked. A court has revoked WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange‘s Ecuadorian citizenship. Ecuador’s justice system formally notified the Australian that his naturalisation had been nullified after Ecuadorian authorities said the…

A court has revoked Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s Ecuadorian citizenship. Administrative errors were made when citizenship was granted to Australian-born Assange in 2017, newspaper El Comercio reported Tuesday, citing an administrative court in Ecuador’s capital Quito. Assange remains detained in London’s high-security Belmarsh prison. The United States is seeking his…