U.K. Home Secretary Sajid Javid has approved the U.S. extradition request for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The certification doesn’t mean Assange is to be shipped to America, only that Javid has no objections to a judge hearing the case. It also means Javid believes that Assange won’t be tortured or face the death penalty should he be moved to the U.S.
Assange is facing various charges from the Department of Justice, including conspiracy to commit hacking offenses and disclosure of national defense documents. They relate to the publication of defense secrets leaked to Wikileaks by former military analyst Chelsea Manning. Javid, a contender to become the next U.K. prime minister, is obliged under law to sign off on legitimate extradition requests from allied countries. But the home secretary does have a smallin the Espionage Act 2003 that allow him to refuse to certify an extradition request.
The most relevant in the case of Assange is the where the subject of an investigation “has been granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom on the ground that it would be a breach of Article 2 or 3 of the Human Rights Convention to remove him to the territory to which extradition is requested.” Article 2 of that convention covers the “right to life,” while Article 3 states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
For Javid, that exception means that in this case he’s satisfied Assange faces neither the death penalty nor torture in America. The U.K. had previously pledged Assange wouldn’t be sent to any country where he could face a death penalty, according to
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