It’s been over 4 years since Julian Assange was forcibly faraway from the Ecuadorian embassy and positioned in a excessive safety jail within the UK, the place he’s battling extradition to the USA. The Wikileaks co-founder is needed on 17 costs of espionage and one cost of pc misuse for publishing paperwork that uncovered US conflict crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the US army jail at Guantánamo.
Regardless of strain from world leaders and United Nations consultants to launch Assange, the FBI’s case towards him stays open and up to date stories state it’s “in search of to collect new proof […] in an obvious effort to bolster their case towards [him].”
Rights teams say the US authorities’s indictment poses a grave menace to international press freedoms, and his household believes extradition to the US can be tantamount to a loss of life sentence.
On this episode of The Stream, we’ll have a look at what’s at stake for Julian Assange if he’s extradited and convicted, in addition to the worldwide efforts to free him.
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