You can't have him...
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:08 pm
How about a swap for that woman who ran over a kid on his bike, then legged it back to the US?Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US to face charges of espionage and of hacking government computers, a British judge has decided.
Lawyers for US authorities are to appeal against the ruling, which rejected arguments that the WikiLeaks co-founder would not get a fair trial in the US but blocked extradition on the basis that procedures in prisons there would not prevent him from potentially taking his own life.
Wearing a mask and a navy suit, the 49-year-old listened from the dock at the central criminal court of England and Wales as the district judge Vanessa Baraitser initially knocked down arguments by his lawyers one after another and accepted the US authorities’ assertion that his alleged activities fell outside of the realm of journalism.
But turning to evidence by eminent medical experts about Assange’s precarious mental health, she said: “The overall impression is of a depressed and sometimes despairing man, who is genuinely fearful about his future.”
“I find that the mental condition of Mr Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America,” she concluded.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/ ... udge-rules