In January, the British justice felt that the health of the founder of Wikileaks hindered his extradition. The psychic state of the Australian will be again at the heart of the debates on Wednesday.
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Julian Assange is back in court. From Wednesday, October 27, the High Court of London will have to decide on appeal if the creator of Wikileaks must, or not, to be extradited to the United States.
In January, the Australian had won a clear victory and, so to speak, unexpectedly: at first instance, the British justice had refused to the American ally extradition of the activist and controversial journalist.
A trompe-l’oeh victory, the very admission of its nearest support: Vanessa BarAritser had estimated too much the risk that Julian Assange commits suicide in prison in the United States to send it. On the bottom of the expenses that weighed – and weigh still – on the Australian, she had given all American arguments right.
They are based on a main accusation: espionage. But the details of the Legal reasoning that the US Department of Justice has submitted to its counter-Atlantic counterpart shows that it is its journalistic activity that is worth in Julian Assange the Fouzres of the United States. And more specifically the fact of having obtained documents from the American army and diplomacy, having exchanged with a source for this purpose and to have published them.
The expenses that pushed the United States to claim it for a trial have nothing to do with the most controversial activities of Wikileaks, especially during the US presidential. The reasons for charge concern a brief period more than ten years ago, where the activist and journalist challenged the US State Department by publishing a series of secret documents in partnership with some of the main media on the planet, of the planet. New York Times in Guardian by passing, in France, by Le Monde.
An American position more and more hard
These confidential documents, causes a strong embarrassment of the American side, have not immediately earned Julian Assange des Unrailed with justice. It was not until May 2019 that the US administration, under the chairmanship of Donald Trump, decided to charge it. After, according to the American press, having refused to use the formidable Law Spiionage Act against a journalistic activity.
The hardening of the position of the US authorities vis-à-vis Wikileaks and its leader has also been highlighted By an investigation from Yahoo News