Anonymous ID: 7e7b97 Feb. 23, 2020, 6:03 p.m. No.8230275   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0283 >>0369 >>0566 >>0803 >>0886

US to lay out case against Assange at extradition hearing

 

LONDON (AP) – The U.S. government and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face off Monday in a high-security London courthouse, a decade after WikiLeaks infuriated American officials by publishing a trove of classified military documents.

 

A judge at Woolwich Crown Court will begin hearing arguments from lawyers for U.S. authorities, who want to try Assange on espionage charges that carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison.

 

The extradition hearing follows years of subterfuge, diplomatic dispute and legal drama that have led the 48-year-old Australian from fame as an international secret-spiller through self-imposed exile inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to incarceration in a maximum-security British prison.

 

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200224/p2g/00m/0in/031000c