The Supreme Court and the UK Government decided in 2022 https://www.argia.eus/albistea/julian-assange-aebetara-estraditatzeko-baimena-du-erresuma-batuko-justiziak to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, but his lawyer had the opportunity to bring a final appeal that the Supreme Court will consider next week.

Institutions and governments around the world have called on the United Kingdom not to extradite because this would endanger the life of the WikiLeaks creator. Based on a 1917 Spying Law EE.UU. has a 175-year prison suit against Assange, so it is very possible to impose a lifelong penalty.

In 2010, WikiLeaks published a wealth of information, over 700,000 files, showing the brutal U.S. action in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and the fight against human rights. Since then, all American leaders have been committed to extraditing Assange.

Many international human rights organizations believe that extradition could endanger the life of Assange. According to Amnesty International EE.UU. does not guarantee the health of thousands of prisoners today, let alone Assange.

According to Kristinn Hrafnsson, Assange’s wife, “if extraditan dies, Julian dies,” he states that this is the last option of the extradition threshold: “Of course, if not, Julian will try to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, but we do not know what is going to happen.”

In prison, in poor health

In 2012 Assang took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he stayed until 2019. Then, after the authorization of the Ecuadorian Government, the UK Police arrested Assange at the embassy and imprisoned him.

The last resolution of the Supreme Court estimated the guarantees of the US authorities, the fair trial and, in the event of penalty, the decent living conditions of the prison. They assured that he was not going to enter any high-security prison, and even that he could carry out the prison in Australia.

For human rights organisations, however, promises are unreliable and require that no extradition be carried out. In addition to being considered an unfair attack on Assenge, extradition is considered a major journalistic blow because Assange's punishment threatens journalists around the world. The Australian Chamber of Delegates, which has recently demonstrated against extradition, has taken numerous initiatives to ask the United States to withdraw its request for extradition.

Since 2019 Assange has been in Belmars High Security Prison in the UK. 23 hours in the dungeon and only one hour in the yard. According to the UN torture rapporteur, Alic Jill Edwards, these conditions are very close to torture and have brought Assange's physical and mental health to the extreme. Under these conditions, and if extradition, the defense and the relatives finally occur, they fear Assang’s suicide.

The prestigious American journalist Charles Glass, who visited Belmars prison at the end of last December, describes in his monthly magazine article Le Monde Diplomatique https://mondiplo.com/en-el-locutorio-con-julian-assange the harsh conditions Assang lives: “This is an absolutely punitive prison. The reason is that the 700 prisoners imprisoned here are accused of terrorism, murder or sexual violence.” Assange is, according to Glass, the longest serving prisoner in this high-security prison after an elderly prisoner. As a sign of the harsh situation, the article points out that in his conversation with him the topic of suicide also arose, “it speaks to me of cases of suicide, one of them the one that occurred the previous night”.