- Title: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange awaits decision on extradition case
- Date: 20th April 2022
- Summary: ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF COMPUTER SCREEN SHOWING WIKILEAKS WEBSITE AND STATEMENT ABOUT THE DISCLOSURES LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - OCTOBER 23, 2010) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ASSANGE STANDING IN FRONT OF PROJECTOR SCREEN ADDRESSING NEWS CONFERENCE FOLLOWING WIKILEAKS RELEASE OF CLASSIFIED U.S. MILITARY FILES CHRONICLING THE IRAQ WAR FROM 2004 TO 2009 ASSANGE STANDING WITH ARMS RAISED IN VICTORY SALUTE NEXT TO SCREEN READING (English): "The Bureau of Investigative Journalism" WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE - NOVEMBER, 2010) (REUTERS) COMPUTER SCREEN SHOWING WIKILEAKS WEBSITE FOLLOWING RELEASE OF THOUSANDS OF U.S. DIPLOMATIC CABLES WITH HEADLINE READING (English): "Secret U.S. Embassy cables" WIKILEAKS WEB PAGE SHOWING NUMBER OF RELEASED DOCUMENTS VARIOUS OF WIKILEAKS WEB PAGES RELATING TO LEAKED DOCUMENT ALLEGING SAUDI ARABIAN KING ABDULLAH URGED THE U.S. TO "CUT OFF THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE," IN REFERENCE TO IRAN AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
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- Keywords: Ecuadorian embassy Julian Assange London United States Wikileaks founder appeal arrest warrant extradition hearing
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- Country: UK
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Europe,Government/Politics
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was on Tuesday (May 31) awaiting a decision on his potential extradition to the United States.
Wikileaks said on Tuesday a decision was expected shortly.
In April, a British judge sent the case of the Wikileaks founder to interior minister Priti Patel to decide whether Assange should be extradited to the United States over the release of confidential U.S. documents.
The procedural step, in what has been a long-running and high-profile legal battle, was announced at a hearing in central London following a March decision to deny Australian-born Assange permission to appeal against his extradition.
The extradition order must now be signed by Patel, after which Assange can try to challenge the decision by judicial review. A judicial review involves a judge examining the legitimacy of a public body's decision.
Assange, 50, is wanted in the United States on 18 criminal charges, including breaking a spying law, after WikiLeaks published thousands of secret U.S. files in 2010.
He denies any wrongdoing.
Assange has been in a southeast London jail since 2019, and before that was holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in the British capital for seven years.
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