UK High Court Adjourns Decision On Julian Assange U.S. Extradition Until May 20
deadline.comA UK High Court in London has adjourned a decision on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can mount a final appeal to fight his extradition from the UK to the U.S.
until May 20. U.S. Prosecutors want to try Assange on charges related to WikiLeaks’s release onto the internet in 2010 of more than half a million secret government, military and diplomatic documents and other pieces of content related to the U.S.
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Judges at the Royal Courts in London said they were seeking further assurances on Assange’s treatment in the U.S.
from authorities there and would take a final decision on May 20. They said they would give the U.S. government three weeks to provide assurances that Assange could rely on the First Amendment to the U.S.
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