{"id":60948,"date":"2021-12-14T07:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60948"},"modified":"2021-12-14T07:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T12:25:25","slug":"julian-assange-loses-appeal-british-high-court-accepts-u-s-request-to-extradite-him-for-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60948","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial<\/a><\/h3>\n

Press freedom groups have warned Assange’s prosecution is a grave threat. The Biden DOJ ignored them, and today won a major victory toward permanently silencing the pioneering transparency activist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media outside the High Court in London on December 5, 2011 where he attended a ruling in his long-running fight against extradition to Sweden (Photo by GEOFF CADDICK\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In a London courtroom on Friday morning,\u00a0<\/strong>Julian Assange suffered a devastating blow to his quest for freedom. A two-judge appellate panel of the United Kingdom’s High Court ruled that the U.S.’s request to extradite Assange to the U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges is legally valid.<\/p>\n

As a result, that extradition request will now be sent to British Home Secretary Prita Patel, who technically must approve all extradition requests but, given the U.K. Government’s long-time subservience to the U.S. security state, is all but certain to rubber-stamp it. Assange’s representatives, including his fiancee Stella Morris, have vowed to appeal the ruling, but today’s victory for the U.S. means that Assange’s freedom, if it ever comes, is further away than ever: not months but years even under the best of circumstances.<\/p>\n

In endorsing the U.S. extradition request, the High Court\u00a0overturned a lower court’s ruling<\/a> from January which had concluded that the conditions of U.S. prison \u2014 particularly for those accused of national security crimes \u2014 are so harsh and oppressive that there is a high likelihood that Assange would commit suicide. In January’s ruling, Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected all of Assange’s arguments that the U.S. was seeking to punish him not for crimes but for political offenses…<\/p>\n

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Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial Press freedom groups have warned Assange’s prosecution is a grave threat. The Biden DOJ ignored them, and today won a major victory toward permanently silencing the pioneering transparency activist. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media outside the High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5437,2001,938,880],"class_list":["post-60948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-julian-assange","tag-press-freedom","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60949,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60948\/revisions\/60949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}