Anonymous ID: 2d7731 Sept. 7, 2020, 12:32 p.m. No.10558317   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange appeared in the dock at London's Old Bailey as his fight against extradition to the US resumed.He told the judge at the start of Monday's hearing he does not consent to extradition - as new charges emerged.

 

If convicted in the US, he faces a possible penalty of 175 years in jail.

 

During Monday's hearing, the court heard Mr Assange, an Australian national, was re-arrested minutes earlier on a new indictment issued in June, during lockdown, by the US government.

 

It contained 18 charges, including plotting to hack computers and conspiring to obtain and disclose national defence information.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54060427