UK court system 'crooked', says WikiLeaks editor ahead of crucial Assange hearing

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Tentative trial dates set for four teens charged with murder | SaltWire #newsupdate #halifax #courtLONDON - The editor of WikiLeaks denounced the British judicial system as crooked on Wednesday, days before a crucial court hearing which could end the legal battle by the organisation's founder Julian Assange to stop extradition to the United States.

In March the High Court provisionally gave Assange permission to appeal but said satisfactory assurances - that the U.S. would not seek the death penalty and would allow him a First Amendment right to free speech in a trial - would make this unnecessary. "The judicial process is rigged," he said, saying the case was"crooked" and a victim of"institutional corruption".

 

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