The US authorities want to put the Australian-born Julian Assange on trial over 18 charges, nearly all under the Espionage Act.
In a short ruling, two senior judges said the US submissions were not sufficient, and ruled that they would allow the appeal to go ahead. Assange’s lawyer Edward Fitzgerald had said the judges should not accept the assurance given by US prosecutors that Assange could seek to rely upon the rights and protections given under the First Amendment, as a US court would not be bound by this.Mr Fitzgerald accepted a separate assurance that Assange would not face the death penalty, saying the US has provided an “unambiguous promise not to charge any capital offence”.
In April 2010, it published a classified video showing a 2007 US helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff. “Every day since Dec 7, 2010, he has been in one form of detention or another,” said Mrs Assange, who was originally part of his legal team and married him in Belmarsh in 2022.
It is also possible the judges could decide that the May 20 hearing should consider not just whether he can appeal, but also the substance of that appeal. If they find in his favour in those circumstances, he could be released.
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