Free Speech, Democracy, and Julian Assange: Saving Julian Assange
Fighting extradition may be the best way to maintain even a semblance of due process.
How much is a non-binding “assurance” worth from people who probably want to see you dead? This is the linchpin question as a British court deliberates on the Biden administration’s latest conniving to bring Julian Assange to America for his legal destruction.
Since Julian Assange, who has spent the last five years in a British supermax jail, was indicted by the U.S. Justice Department in 2019 on 17 charges for violating the Espionage Act the U.S. Justice Department sought his extradition. Assange has probably one last best shot at a pretense of due procedure by fighting extradition.
The British High Court said on Tuesday that they had accepted assurances that Assange’s case was non-political from U.S. politicians and British politicians, but that they did recognize three possible grounds for appeal. That court gave the U.S. government three weeks to…
