This decision constitutes a new stage leading to a possible extradition of Julian Assange, accused of espionage in the United States for publishing secret documents in 2010.
Le Monde
Julian Assange will not be able to plead his cause before the British Supreme Court. The latter has, in fact, refused to decide on the case of the founder of Wikileaks, who is accused of espionage in the United States and whose extradition was ordered on appeal.
The announcement of the Supreme Court decision A been made by wikileaks , Monday, March 14th. The judges justified this refusal by the fact that Mr. Assange’s request did not raise a special legal issue.
Julian Assange is accused by the United States of having published secret documents from the US Army and Diplomacy in 2010, in collaboration with several major media, including Le Monde. The United States estimates that these facts were not falling under journalism and endangered the identity of the sources of the American army and diplomacy, a charge denied by Julian Assange’s lawyers. The latter argument, on the contrary, that this is a political demand, that the founder of Wikileaks has nothing other than journalism and that the state of health of their client does not allow any way not extradition.
Judicial marathon
Julian Assange first obtained, at first instance, that the British justice refuses his extradition. In January 202, she had estimated that her mental health was too fragile so that he was sent on the Atlantic. The United States had appealed this decision and won the case in December, the Court of Appeal held that the guarantees made meanwhile by the United States decorated the concerns about the health of Australian. The latter then obtained the right to ask the Supreme Court to examine his file. She must, however, decide whether or not she leaned on her request.
The American extradition request will now have to be examined by the British Interior Minister, Prii Patel. His decision, presumably in favor of extradition, may also be challenged by Julian’s lawyers in front of justice. The latter, also, on appeals before the European Court of Human Rights. Julian Assange has been incarcerated for almost three years in a high security prison.