Iran president Ebrahim Raisi: Helicopter suffers 'hard landing'The outcome will depend on how much weight judges give to reassurances US officials have provided that Assange's rights won't be trampled if he goes on trial.Assange, 52, an Australian computer expert, has been indicted in the US on 18 charges over Wikileaks' publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents in 2010.
Assange and his supporters argue he acted as a journalist to expose US military wrongdoing and is protected under press freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012 and was granted political asylum after courts in England ruled he should be extradited to Sweden as part of a rape investigation in the Scandinavian country.
But subsequent courts cleared the way for the move after U.S. authorities provided assurances he wouldn't experience the severe treatment that his lawyers said would put his physical and mental health at risk.Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, leaves the Royal Courts of Justice in London at lunchtime on Tuesday, February 20, 2024. Assange's lawyers raised nine grounds for appeal at a hearing in February, including the allegation that his prosecution is political.
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