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President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents. Australia has consistently called on the US to drop its years-long prosecution against Assange, an Australian citizen who has fought US extradition efforts from prison in the UK. Asked about the request on Wednesday, as he hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for an official visit, Biden said: “We’re considering it.” Assange has been indicted on 17 espionage charges an...
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A court in the UK is scheduled Tuesday to rule whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gets one final appeal to challenge extradition to the United States on espionage charges. Two judges are due to issue a judgment in the High Court that could put an end to Assange's long legal saga or further extend it. If he fails in winning the right to appeal, his legal team fears he could be swiftly sent to the US to face charges, though they’re likely to ask the European Court of Human Rights to block any transfer. Why is WikiLeaks founder and hacker Julian Assange facing extradition to the US?Assange,...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is bracing for a decisive court ruling in the United Kingdom that will decide whether he is to be extradited to the United States on spying charges. The High Court of London is expected to make a judgement on Tuesday (March 26) on whether to allow or block the 52-year-old's extradition to the US, where he faces 18 counts of espionage for publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents in 2010 related to the US military’s conduct during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The Australian journalist and ethical hacker has been held at Belmarsh prison in the ...
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"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should face espionage charges in the United States because he put innocent lives at risk and went beyond journalism in his bid to solicit, steal and indiscriminately publish classified U.S. government documents," lawyers for the American government argued on Wednesday. The lawyers spoke before Britain's High Court in response to a last-ditch bid by Assange's defence to stop his extradition from the United Kingdom to the U.S. Assange’s lawyers are asking the High Court to grant him a new appeal - his last legal roll of the dice in the long-running legal saga th...
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Hundreds of people marched to the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on Monday evening and demanded an immediate deal to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Hamas still holds dozens of the roughly 250 hostages taken in the 7 October attack, after more than 100 were released during a one-week truce in November. Those releases were in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners. Hamas has said it won’t release all of the remaining hostages until Israel ends the war and withdraws from Gaza. Israel sets deadline for Rafah offensive as Netanyahu vows to 'finish the job' in GazaIt is also d...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing what could be his final court hearing in the UK to avoid being extradited to the US on spy charges. The High Court in London will hear two days of arguments starting on Tuesday over whether the 52-year-old - who’s been fighting extradition for more than a decade - could block his transfer to the US. The Australian journalist has been imprisoned in HM Prison Belmarsh since April 2019, after having spent years in self-exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the British capital. Assange has been indicted on 18 charges over the publication of hundreds of thous...
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