Mounting evidence set to stretch Julian Assange trial

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More than 40,000 pages of evidence and 21 witnesses mean WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's US extradition trial could run to up to four weeks.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition trial could blow out to a month as more witnesses come forward and evidence mounts to more than 40,000 pages.

Unshaven and wearing glasses, the Australian sniffled during his video appearance from Belmarsh prison, where he's been held since his 11 April arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.Assange has been charged in the US with 17 counts of spying and one count of computer hacking in relation to WikiLeaks' release of thousands of classified Pentagon files regarding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The barrister described bundles dossiers of evidence relating to the espionage charges against Assange, along with documents relating to Manning.

 

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