Julian Assange loses his appeal to the Supreme Court and is “dangerously about to be extradited”

The threat of extradition has long suffocated Julian Assange, Currently imprisoned in the UK. A year ago, the Minister of the Interior, Priti Patel, signed an order for her return to the US that for Assange sounded like life imprisonment. Now, after losing his latest appeal, the brother of the Wikileaks founder has said that he is “dangerously close” to being extradited.

UK Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Swift rejected, in a sentence of just three pages, the eight arguments used by the defense against the ruling signed by the previous minister Patel. “We will present a new appeal request before the Supreme next week“said Stella Assange, Julian’s wife, after the sentence was known.

Assange’s lawyers are not giving up either and make a new appeal to the Supreme. Another resource that, everything indicates, will be like hitting the same wall. They are managing to delay the moment, since it is expected that, as soon as they set foot on North American territory, be imprisoned forever.

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“We continue to be optimistic that we will win and Julian will not be extradited to the United States, where he faces charges that could lead to a life sentence in a maximum security prison for having published true information that revealed war crimes committed by the US government,” said Stella Assange.

Like his daughter-in-law, Assange’s father, John Shipton, said they had the law on their side: “Our motives are clear, firm and fair. Julian’s entire family is watching in horror at what is happening, just as every impartial person in the world is watching with deep concern and alarm.”

Appeal against Patel

The defense appeal argued that Piti Patel broke the law by signing the order for extradition because the request violated the US-UK Extradition Treaty. Said regulations establish that “extradition will not be granted if the crime for which it is requested is a public crime.” Assange maintains that the US request is politically motivated.

But Swift, by denying these arguments, leaves Assange on the ropes. He only has one last attempt left in the British courts to avoid compliance with this sentence: the lawyers have five business days to file a 20-page appeal before a court made up of two new judges, who will convene a public hearing where everything will be heard.

If this were not successful, Assange could go to the European Court of Human Rights, which already in December received a request to address his cause. The expectations of Assange’s family are already going to obtain victory there, since in the United Kingdom the courts leave him “ever more dangerously close to extradition, something very serious“his brother Gabriel told ‘The Guardian’.

“These moments always they are the hardest for Julian. Obviously, he’s focused on the next appeal, he’s doing well. This case has been going on for 13 years and it’s taking its toll in the body and in the mind”, explains Gabriel.

In addition, he added that the public statements of the australian government They seemed completely insufficient. “The topics of the Government sound hollow. We have been listening to what they say for more than a year, but what has changed? Nothing. they could be doing more“.

may of hope

This news has fallen like a bucket of cold water on the hopes of Assange’s supporters because May was a month where optimism soared. On Wednesday the 24th, his supporters stated that the campaign to free him was at the “peak of success” thanks to the diplomatic pressure exerted from Australia.

Hundreds of supporters gathered that day in Hyde Park, Sydneyfor a march through the city that was originally going to coincide with a visit by the President of the United States, Joe Bidenbut that he ended up canceling his visit because he was immersed in the negotiations on the debt ceiling.

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Stella Assange traveled to Australia for the protest, telling Reuters that meetings with politicians in Canberra had been productive. “What I feel intensely is a concerted effort to bring Julian home by Australian politicians, obviously by the government and also by the Australian people,” he said.

The campaign for Assange’s release is “on the verge of succeeding”his father, John Shipton, told Reuters during the march. Both the Prime Minister Anthony Albaneselike the leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton, had declared days before that Assange’s detention had lasted too long.

Stephen Kenny, lawyer for the former Australian detainee at Guantanamo david hicks, told the crowd that Assange had not committed any crime. “This it’s a political issue and requires a political solution,” he said.