BBC:
In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court, the judge who oversees extradition requests authorised the case to be sent to Priti Patel.
The Wikileaks founder is expected to appeal to the High Court if she approves his extradition.
Mr Assange is wanted in the US over documents leaked in 2010 and 2011.
The Supreme Court ruled last month that Mr Assange’s case raised no legal questions over assurances the US had given the UK over how he is likely to be treated.
Ms Patel must now decide whether the US’s request for Mr Assange meets remaining legal tests – including a promise not to execute him.
So the legal test is that the judge has to believe that they’re not going to kill him. I don’t think I’m risking much at the clout casino by saying that’s not going to be much of an obstacle. If every politician in the US along with the CIA director and numerous judges outright said “yeah we’re gonna kill him LOL,” I’m pretty sure this judge would still find no reason to suspect Assange at risk of being executed or harmed in any way.
Mr Assange spoke briefly on a video link from Belmarsh Prison during the seven-minute hearing, to confirm his name and date of birth and to acknowledge he understood what was happening.
“I am duty-bound to send your case to the Secretary of State for a decision on whether you will be extradited,” the judge told him.
“You have the right to appeal to the High Court and if you exercise your right to appeal it will not be heard until [Ms Patel] has made her decision.”
This site wasn’t around in 2015 when the Assange stuff was really getting into full swing, and it’s not my number one priority to do research into this kind of stuff. What I do know is that he embarrassed the US Federal Government, so they made up some nonsense about him endangering the lives of US government officials. No, nobody was actually killed, of course. It’s like the hate speech laws we have, where you don’t have to prove that anything bad actually happened in order to do political oppression.
The 50-year-old has been in prison since he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2019 and arrested by British police, after Ecuador withdrew his asylum status.
In May 2019, while serving a jail sentence in the UK for breaching bail, the US justice department filed 17 charges against Mr Assange for violating the Espionage Act – alleging that material obtained by Wikileaks endangered lives.
That means nothing bad actually happened. Just trying to be your propaganda translator.
Also, do note that about 7,500 of our soldiers never returned home from the Middle East. But no, the people who lied us into those wars will not be deemed to have endangered lives. That’s not how it works.
Mr Assange’s legal team claimed that classified documents published by Wikileaks, which related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, exposed US wrongdoing and were in the public interest.
I wish I was in a position to help Mr. Assange, but I’m not. Instead, all we can do is point out how utterly full of shit and malicious these propagandists are when they bloviate about “muh rule based order,” or “muh authoritarianism.” Julian Assange is a real journalist, not a propagandist, and as a real journalist he has spent the past decade of his life in prison, and unless I’m elected, or someone like me, he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison.
Rashaun Weaver, left, who murdered Tessa Majors, right, got 14 years in prison. Fourteen years for stabbing a White Woman, and then chasing after her and stabbing her again as she desperately struggled to get away.
In contrast, these White Men all got life for filming Ahmaud Arbery kill himself by grabbing a loaded shotgun.
And of course, when over 20 churches were arsoned, some multiple times, here in Canada, in including many burned to the ground, there was not one single hate crime charge laid. Not one.
Don’t ever let these people get away with calling themselves “Liberal.” They’re just your enemies and they currently have power over you. And that needs to end.
