Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition

Whatever you think of Assange, you should know why the US government wants to prosecute him. He published this among other things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8xhH0FkCQg

Context: that's a US gunship firing on Reuters journalists among other civilians including kids.

Assange is a bit of a scumbag, but unrelatedly, his efforts for freedom of information should not land him in US torture prisons like many others.

The Australian government voted on a motion to bring him home. He is a journalist who did nothing wrong.

thats what being a dissident gets you in the us.

may there be mercy on his soul if he even gets extradited.

Luckily political dissidents don’t need to fear for their life/freedom in the west, ow wait.

Btw what is up with those rape charges, or did Sweden conveniently drop them the moment Assange was pulled from that embassy?

Honestly, I skimmed this title and thought it said he was found in a ditch. I’m surprised he has lasted this long.

He ran out the clock for the rape charge against him in Sweden? What a scumbag.

To all the clowns here protecting Assange as a "dissident", I suggest you read up on his conmection to Israel Shamir.

Assange is a huge asshole who doesn't give a shit about journalism or exposing wrongdoing.

Remember the US did not seek extradition for the 2013 leaks he coursed Chelsey manning into getting him, it wasn't until he conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election that the US decided to seek extradition.

Page 44 of the Muller Report In order to expand its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the GRU units transferred many of the documents they stole from the DNC and the chairman of the Clinton Campaign to WikiLeaks. GRU officers used both the DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 personas to communicate with WikiLeaks through Twitter private messaging and through encrypted channels, including possibly through WikiLeaks’s private communication system.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-exclusive-documents/index.html Despite being confined to the embassy while seeking safe passage to Ecuador, Assange met with Russians and world-class hackers at critical moments, frequently for hours at a time. He also acquired powerful new computing and network hardware to facilitate data transfers just weeks before WikiLeaks received hacked materials from Russian operatives.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Lawyers for Julian Assange have launched what could be his final bid to avoid extradition to the US to face trial over leaking military secrets.

Some supporters of Assange started gathering outside court hours ahead of Tuesday's hearing, waving placards featuring the words "Drop the charges".

Originally from Australia, Mr Assange's mammoth legal battle began in 2010 when Wikileaks disclosed huge numbers of confidential military files from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - including footage showing a United States helicopter gunning down civilians in Baghdad.

Two years later, a British judge ruled that while the US had shown it had a legitimate criminal case against Mr Assange, he could not be transferred because he may try to harm himself.

At this week's hearing, Mr Assange's lawyers are asking for permission to challenge the extradition order signed by the then UK home secretary Priti Patel almost two years ago.

Nick Vamos, the former head of extradition at the Crown Prosecution Service, said US Marshals could arrive in London within days if the High Court throws the case out.

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