People attend a protest outside the High Court on the day of an extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in London, UK, May 20, 2024.LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was given permission on Monday to appeal against extradition to the United States after arguing at London's High Court that he might not be able to rely on his right to free speech in a US court.
After Monday's hearing, two senior judges said Assange's argument that he might not be able to rely on the US First Amendment right to free speech deserved a full appeal — which is unlikely to be held for months. "We don't know how long this will go on for and it takes an enormous toll on him," Stella, who had been in court with Assange's brother and father, told Reuters."I hope that the US administration looks at this case and now... considers it should just be dropped," she said. "The signals should be clear that it's time to drop it.
WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on Washington's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq along with swathes of diplomatic cables.
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