U.K. Judge rejects bid to delay the Assange Extradition Hearing

(LONDON) – A British judge on Monday rejected the request of the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange’s lawyers to delay hearings until next year to give more time to react to his extradition to his lawyers with the US accusation that has received hackers to get things conspired, the update request came on the first day of a London court where prosecutors Americans Assange trying to fight him in the United States to send stand trial on charges of espionage. US prosecutors have accused the 49-year-old Australian on 18 espionage and computer abuse charges over release of US military secret documents WikiLeaks’ ten years ago. The costs involve a maximum penalty of 175 years in prison convicted. The Assange’s lawyers argue that the persecution choke a political abuse of power background, press freedom and journalists put at risk all over the world. The Department of Justice of the United States has expanded its lawsuit against Assange in a new indictment announced in June, although it did not introduce a new tax. But Assange’s attorney Mark Summers said it was for the legal department to face the new charges in court in time for Monday Audience “an impossible task”, especially as they had to Assange detained only “limited access.” He said US District Judge Vanessa Baraitser should cut new American demands that he was told on defending the sprung “out of the blue.” The judge rejected the request, saying that the defense had rejected an opportunity earlier in August to postpone the hearing. The defense then asked for the case was postponed until January. Baraitser refused, saying Assange’s lawyers before Monday “sufficient time” had to bring their concerns to express. The event took place already for the crown pandemic for months. , The 16 months spent in a British jail Assange sat in the dock at the Old Bailey Criminal Court and formally the US extradition refused the demand. Assange, saying the lawyers have physical and mental illnesses suffer because of his ordeal, he wore a suit and tie and spoke clearly to confirm his name and date of birth. Several dozen supporters, including the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and Assange partner, Stella Moris, gathered outside the court, hammering singing, drumming, and calls his research a threat to press freedom. “Julian Assange is the trigger, it seems the light of all the corruption in the world,” said Westwood. US authorities claim that Assange for the US Army intelligence analyst Manning Chelsea on a computer, and release of the Pentagon hundreds of thousands of diplomatic dispatches and military intelligence files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conspired to hack. The new indictment, in June accuses Assange of hacker conferences in Europe and Asia, the hacking recruitment associated by a former WikiLeaks recruiting a teenager on the computer and conspiracy known as LulzSec and Anonymous hacker group members. public US prosecutors say the evidence underscores efforts Assange Prosecutors and share things, statements that form the basis of criminal charges. However, Assange’s lawyers argue that he tell a reporter for the protection of the First Amendment and that the leaked documents exposed poor military leadership of the United States law. killed in files published by WikiLeaks video of an Apache attack helicopter 2007 by US troops in Baghdad that 11 people, including two Reuters journalists. Assange’s legal problems began in 2010, when he was arrested in London at the request of Sweden, who wanted to ask him about allegations of rape and sexual violence by two women in question. He refused to go to Stockholm and said he feared extradition or illegal rendition to the United States or the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In 2012, Assange took refuge in the embassy of Ecuador, where he was to beyond the reach of the Swedish and British authorities – but also effectively trapped, unable to leave the small diplomatic mission in London. The relationship between Assange and his troops eventually soured, and he was British Embassy in April 2019 the police arrested him immediately for bail jumping sold in 2012. Sweden, the sex crimes investigation in November 2019 fell due as well much time had passed, but Assange remains in a maximum security prison Belmarsh London when he expects the extradition decision. Supporters say the agony of Assange has damaged the physical and mental health, to leave him with depression, dental problems and a severe pain in his shoulder. The hearing is expected to be up that psychiatric expert evidence about his mental condition. the journalism organizations and human rights groups have called on the United Kingdom to reject the extradition request. Amnesty International said Assange was “at the highest level, the target of a negative public campaign to US officials.” But down the extradition hearing was opened in February on the ice when U.K. bloc visited in March, to slow the spread of the crown. And ‘able to observe the resumption of social distancing measures in court and video feeds as the journalists and observers away. The case is due to run until early October. The judge is expected for weeks or even months to make their judgment to check the losing side will probably appeal.
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