US seeks to extradite Assange for \u201cone of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of US\u201d
\n LONDON
\nWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange met with partial success as a High Court in the United Kingdom allowed him to appeal his extradition decision which was signed in 2022 by the then-home secretary Priti Patel.
\nAccording to the prosecutors, the confidential information and war crimes unearthed by WikiLeaks endangered the lives of those people whose names were not redacted and that should be trialled before the US courts, reported BBC.
\nWikiLeaks founder filed the appeal against the extradition in February 2024.
\nThe decision was issued by two senior judges allowing Assange to challenge the assurances by Washington about his future trial in the US, keeping in view his right to free speech.
\nAttorneys of the 52-year-old Assange hugged each other and maintained that the case was politically motivated.
\nThe resistance to his extradition came over a decade after his website released confidential military secrets revealing the US war crimes in 2010 and 2011.
\nNow Assange \u2014 who is in Belmarsh Prison \u2014 has several months to prepare a full appeal in the UK.
\nThe Australian national Assange maintained that his revealing in 2010 made public the war crimes being committed by the US. The news in favour of the journalist was cheered among his supporters.
\nHis wife Stella Assange told the news outlet that it would be a \u201cdecisive\u201d day in the protracted legal battle.
\nHis wife further added that she would \u201cfight on until Julian is free\u201d, whatever the judges ruled. The US has been attempting to extradite Assange for committing \u201cone of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States\u201d, as per Department of Justice.
\nAccording to the information the US military had killed civilians in unreported incidents during the war in Afghanistan.
\nAssange\u2019s wife stated: \u201cThis case is the revenge of that country against openness and accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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