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Julian Assange refused bail despite judge ruling against extradition to US
"Julian Assange stripped of citizenship by Ecuador
"Pentagon Papers leaker comes to the defense of Assange""
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Ben Quinn @BenQuinn75
Wed 6 Jan 2021 23.06 AEDT
First published on Wed 6 Jan 2021 22.27 AEDT
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/06/julian-assange-refused-bail-despite-judge-ruling-against-extradition-to-us
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UK judge backs US appeal in Assange extradition case
British judge gives US permission to expand grounds for appealing an earlier decision to block the extradition.
Supporters hold placards in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, outside the Royal Courts
of Justice in the City of London [AFP]
Published On 11 Aug 2021
A British judge is granting the United States government extra grounds to appeal a refusal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, after it argued the initial ruling relied on a witness who misled the court.
Two judges agreed on Wednesday to grant the US authorities permission to expand their grounds of appealing Baraitser’s decision to block the extradition.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused in January to grant a request from Washington for Assange to face trial in the US on spying charges, ruling he was at serious risk of death by suicide.
However, lawyer Clair Dobbin, representing the US government which is appealing the decision, said the judge “didn’t appreciate the weight” of expert evidence that concluded Assange was not a suicide risk.
Instead, the judge relied on evidence presented by Assange’s psychiatric expert Michael Kopelman, Dobbin told the High Court in London.
She said that Kopelman had admitted to misleading the court by “concealing” that his client had fathered children while holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
“She really needed to interrogate why he was willing to mislead her,” Dobbin told judges Timothy Holroyde and Judith Farbey during a preliminary appeal hearing.
“Experts aren’t allowed to mislead for any reason.”
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Supporters and lawyers for Assange have argued that he was acting as a journalist and is entitled to First Amendment protections of freedom of speech for publishing documents that exposed US military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lawyers for the US government, however, have said the case is largely based on “his unlawful involvement” in the theft of the diplomatic cables and military files by US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/11/uk-judge-backs-us-appeal-in-assange-extradition-case
"Julian Assange stripped of citizenship by Ecuador
"Pentagon Papers leaker comes to the defense of Assange""
This article is more than 9 months old
Ben Quinn @BenQuinn75
Wed 6 Jan 2021 23.06 AEDT
First published on Wed 6 Jan 2021 22.27 AEDT
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/06/julian-assange-refused-bail-despite-judge-ruling-against-extradition-to-us
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UK judge backs US appeal in Assange extradition case
British judge gives US permission to expand grounds for appealing an earlier decision to block the extradition.
Supporters hold placards in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, outside the Royal Courts
of Justice in the City of London [AFP]
Published On 11 Aug 2021
A British judge is granting the United States government extra grounds to appeal a refusal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, after it argued the initial ruling relied on a witness who misled the court.
Two judges agreed on Wednesday to grant the US authorities permission to expand their grounds of appealing Baraitser’s decision to block the extradition.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused in January to grant a request from Washington for Assange to face trial in the US on spying charges, ruling he was at serious risk of death by suicide.
However, lawyer Clair Dobbin, representing the US government which is appealing the decision, said the judge “didn’t appreciate the weight” of expert evidence that concluded Assange was not a suicide risk.
Instead, the judge relied on evidence presented by Assange’s psychiatric expert Michael Kopelman, Dobbin told the High Court in London.
She said that Kopelman had admitted to misleading the court by “concealing” that his client had fathered children while holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
“She really needed to interrogate why he was willing to mislead her,” Dobbin told judges Timothy Holroyde and Judith Farbey during a preliminary appeal hearing.
“Experts aren’t allowed to mislead for any reason.”
[...]
Supporters and lawyers for Assange have argued that he was acting as a journalist and is entitled to First Amendment protections of freedom of speech for publishing documents that exposed US military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lawyers for the US government, however, have said the case is largely based on “his unlawful involvement” in the theft of the diplomatic cables and military files by US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/11/uk-judge-backs-us-appeal-in-assange-extradition-case
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