The judicial session, scheduled for 9.30 GMT this Wednesday (10.27.2021), is held after the director of the WikiLeaks portal, Kristinn Hrafnsson, this week considered “totally unacceptable” that the court could rule in favor of the United States. . on your appeal.
The appeal has been filed after the Westminster Magistrates Court (London) ruled last January against the handover of Assange to the United States.
Assange was arrested in the United Kingdom in 2019 after having spent seven years sheltering in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid his surrender to Sweden, who wanted to interrogate him for sexual crimes that he denied and that were later withdrawn, for fear of being, ultimately extradited from that country to the US.
Protests in London calling for the release of Julian Assange.
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In its appeal, Washington calls into question the reliability of an expert who testified in favor of Assange.
Indeed, psychiatrist Michael Kopelman acknowledged that he had deceived justice by “hiding” the fact that his client became a father during his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
This appeal to the High Court in London, which will last two days, is one of the last appeals of Washington, which, if it fails, could only go to the British Supreme Court.
If the US appeal were successful, this would not be the end of the case, which will be forwarded to another court that will have to rule on the matter.
The WikiLeaks founder, who is imprisoned in the British high-security prison in Belmarsh (London), faces 18 charges in the United States in relation to the leaks of his portal of thousands of confidential documents related to the military campaigns in that country in Iraq and Afghanistan and by computer intrusion.
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