US Appeal Decision on Assange on Friday at British High Court

by | Dec 9, 2021

Joe Lauria of Consortium News reports:

WikiLeaks has said that the judgement in the U.S. appeal against an order not to extradite imprisoned publisher Julian Assange will be read at the High Court in London at 5:15 am EST, 10:15 am GMT on Friday.

The two judges on the High Court, Lord Chief Justice Ian Duncan Burnett and Lord Justice Timothy Holroyde, must decide whether District Judge Vanessa Baraitser applied the law correctly in finding that it would be oppressive to extradite a highly suicidal Assange to a harsh U.S. prison.

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