British justice will not extradite Julian Assange
- British justice has decided this Monday not to extradite Julian Assange, one of the founders of Wikileaks, who has been arrested in the UK. Justice Vanessa Baraitser has considered that Assange takes into account the "suicide risk" that has led her to the National High Court. The group of lawyers representing the US authorities has announced that they will file an appeal against the ECHR ruling. On Wednesday, it will be Judge Baraitser who assesses whether Assange's release is subject to imprisonment.
In the sentence, Judge Vanessa Baraitser considers "proven" that Assange can take his life if he extradited that he can do it; in the USA Assange would be "practically isolated" because he would have to go through a long judicial and confinement process, which would further harm Assange's thin mental health. He has therefore rejected extradition. However, the magistrate has rejected all defence arguments not to extradite Assange, including the political motivation of persecution.
The legal group representing the United States has announced that it will file an appeal against the ruling of the National Court. Everything therefore suggests that the case could continue in the High Court of Justice and in the Supreme Court. For the moment, the next big citation of the case will be on Wednesday, when the second round is held. In that case, it will be the judge who decides whether or not to grant parole to Julian Assange.
Assange is located in a fully isolated high-security prison in London. Concerned about their health, about 200 doctors have published a letter alerting them to the risk of suicide. Nils Melzer, special rapporteur on torture at the UN, said he has "typical symptoms of long-term psychological torture."
Assange has been in prison
for ten years without freedom. First, detained at home; then, seven years have passed without sun or fresh air inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He was expelled and arrested in April 2019 after a strategy of espionage against the journalist and his family and lawyers – a Spanish company dedicated to the security of the embassy placed cameras and microphones in all rooms at the request of the secret services of EE.UU.
In 2010, Wikileaks, with the help of large media outlets, published one of the largest leaks in the history of "secret" documents. Over 700,000 files of the U.S. intelligence services, which evidenced the opaque and cruel diplomatic and military actions of many governments and states. Among other things, the savage torture of Abu Ghraib prisoners in Iraq and several war crimes committed by US public officials. Among the twelve deaths were Reuters reporters Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, among others.
In 2010, WikiLeaks, with the collaboration of mass media, published one of the widest leaks in the history of "secret" documents. Over 700,000 files of the U.S. intelligence services, which evidenced the opaque and cruel diplomatic and military actions of many governments and... [+]
Norvegiako poliziak ikerketa abiatu du Arjen Kamphuis-en desagerpenaren berri izan ostean. Azken urteetan mundu osoko botere ekonomiko eta politikoek ezkutuan zeuzkaten dokumentuak sareratzeagatik ezaguna egin den Wikileaks atariaren sortzaileetako bat da.
