The Australian journalist has been given permission to challenge his extradition to the US On Monday, the British High Court granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against his extradition to the US. His legal team had petitioned the court to allow him to challenge the extradition decision on points of law of general […]
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Date set for court ruling on Assange extradition appeal
A judge will decide whether to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal In a tweet on Friday, WikiLeaks said that the UK would be ruling on whether founder Julian Assange could appeal his extradition to the US. The High Court will deliver its decision on Monday. “The UK High Court will deliver its decision on […]
Assange appeals his extradition to US
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has requested permission to appeal his extradition to the US with the same British court that ordered it in the first place. He argues that Washington’s assurances are invalid and unreliable. Assange filed his “application for leave to appeal” on Thursday morning, his fiancee Stella Moris announced on social media. The […]
Top Aussie official blasts hypocrisy of Assange’s possible extradition to US
If Australia is fine with the extradition of its citizen Julian Assange from Britain to the US, it would be equally OK for some nation to hand over an Australian Koran insulter to Saudi Arabia, a senior government official wrote. The rebuke of the US claim on Assange, authored by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, […]
‘If they destroy the free press, they destroy the world,’ Roger Waters says after UK court adjourns to rule on Assange extradition
Julian Assange’s extradition case could deal a fatal blow to free press worldwide, Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters told RT as a British court weighed final arguments on whether to transfer the WikiLeaks co-founder to US custody. Though the UK High Court did not hand down a ruling after Thursday’s appeal hearing and is now […]
Washington to let Julian Assange serve sentence in Australia if convicted after extradition to US, legal document shows
Lawyers acting on behalf of the US government have “provided assurance” to a UK extradition hearing that any custodial sentence imposed on WikiLeaks founder Assange by an American court would be allowed to be served in Australia. The US government has begun its appeal against an initial decision by a UK court that denied a […]
Italian court suspends extradition case of Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont
Italy’s Sassari Court of Appeals has suspended extradition proceedings against the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who was arrested last month when he arrived on the Italian island of Sardinia. On Monday, a judge delayed Spain’s extradition request against the leader of Catalonia’s independence movement. Speaking to reporters, Puigdemont’s Italian lawyer Agostinangelo Marras said a ruling […]
Canadian fashion mogul Nygard consents to US extradition, faces sex trafficking and racketeering charges in echo of Epstein case
Finnish-born Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard has given his consent to be extradited to the US, where he is accused of luring women and girls to residences in America, Canada and the Bahamas to sexually abuse them. On Friday, Crown Prosecutor Scott Farlinger told a court in Winnipeg, Manitoba that Nygard had accepted a US […]