Global News published this video item, entitled “WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange cannot be extradited to US, British judge rules” – below is their description.
Supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange celebrated outside a court in London on Monday after a British judge ruled he should not be extradited to the United States.
U.S. authorities accused Assange of breaking spying laws, and 18 counts relating to the release by WikiLeaks of vast troves of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables which they said had put lives in danger.
Assange’s lawyers argued the entire prosecution was politically motivated, powered by U.S. President Donald Trump, and that his extradition would pose a severe threat to the work of journalists.
At a hearing at London’s Old Bailey, Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected nearly all his legal team’s arguments but said she could not approve his extradition as there was a real risk he would commit suicide.
Assange, 49, born in Australia, suffered from at times severe depression, she said, and had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and autism.
U.S. prosecutors and Western security officials see Assange as a reckless and dangerous enemy of the state whose actions put at risk the lives of agents whose names were in the material.
Supporters regard him as an anti-establishment hero who has been victimized because he exposed U.S. wrongdoing in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and say his prosecution is an assault on journalism and free speech.
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