Julian Assange is playing his last chance to avoid extradition to United States

The advice of the hacker and jefe of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who remains in the British high security prison of Belmarsh, is defined in the next 48 hours. An appeal to the British courts will decide whether or not you are extradited to United States to fulfill a sentence, which can last up to 175 yearsto have filtered secret North American documents and published on WikiLeaks.

It has been 12 years since the WikiLeaks founder, now 52 years old, entered the Ecuadorian embattled in London to evade arrest. This week e.g on last attempt to present an appeal in the United Kingdom.

Over the next few days, the Superior Court will seek a final appeal against its submission to United States, where it will provide cargo to help former military analyst Chelsea Manning to Download ultra-secret intelligence archiveswhich WikiLeaks published online.

Assange’s Spanish wife says he will “die” if he is extradited. His legal team also promised to file a final appeal before the European Human Rights Tribunal, if the intent of this week is broken.

The arguments

Julian Assange runs the risk of a “flagrant denial of justice” if he was convicted in the United States, saying his crimes in an audience allowed to appear in London. His case could result in the extradition of the WikiLeaks funder in a few days if he is not successful.

Assange, que published miles of classified military and diplomatic documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistanhe could be sentenced to up to 175 years of prison. “An extremely disproportionate punishment” – he was declared guilty in the United States, after being heard on Tuesday by the superior court.

Your abogados are soliciting a full audience of appeal. Without embargo, if the two judges deny permission, all appeals in the courts of the United Kingdom have been ruled out. The latest recurso is an intervention of the European Human Rights Tribunal (TEDH) as Assange’s only hope to avoid extradition to the United States.

Enfermo

Outside the court, tens of their supporters supported the papers and were demanding their release in London. The founder of WikiLeaks was granted permission to attend the audience of two days. But one of his abogados, Edward Fitzgerald KC, said that Assange “did not meet well”.

Fitzgerald told the tribunal that if Assange was extradited there was “a real possibility that he would suffer a flagrant denial of justice”. In his written argument, Fitzgerald said: “This legally precedent process seeks to criminalize the application of ordinary periodic practices to obtain and publish truthfully classified information of the most obvious and important public interest.”

I say that Assange and WikiLeaks “were responsible for exposing criminality by the government of the United States”.

The history of filtrations

In 2010 and 2011, WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He has repeatedly described it as “one of the greatest compromises of classified information in the history of United States”.

Tax officials, politicians and the intelligentsia say that disclosure can cruelly change the lives of agents who work in the field. But WikiLeaks insiders say they helped the exposer irregular supuestas by part of United States.

The filtered documents are being processed by Chelsea Manning, who is currently working as an analyst for the US Army in Iraq.

In this case Chelsea was known as soldier Bradley Manning. But now she identifies herself as a woman who has changed sex in prison.

Following the accusation, Manning “descargó Four complete case data bases of departments and agencies of United States”.

They contain “approximately 90,000 reports of important activities related to the war in Afghanistan, 400,000 reports of important activities related to the Iraq war, 800 reports of evaluation of detainees in Guantánamo Bay and 250,000 cables from the United States Department of State”.

Entre los 750,000 documents published WikiLeaks found a video from 2007, which showed a US helicopter shooting at a group of civilians in Baghdad. The attack included 12 people, including young children and two Reuters photographers.

¿Hero or villain?

Fugitive or hero? Julian Assange divides opinions. Not all journalists who supported him initially supported him today. Many have opted for silence. But all defienden the right to freedom of expression.

“I don’t like Assange. You can be egomaniac and misogynistic. But today the founder of WikiLeaks represents freedom of expression and we must protect this,” wrote Suzane Moore, the columnist of the conservative diary Telegraph.

In his editorial, the British diary The Guardianwho initially published the documents, said: “Sending it to the United States would be an unacceptable act against the founder of WikiLeaks and against periodicism”.

“It is no secret that Julian Assange can divide opinion. But now is the time to leave all these questions firmly. Now is the time to support Señor Assange, and do it from the beginning, for the sake of his (and our) freedom. There can be no division over the intent of the United States to extradite the founder of WikiLeaks in Great Britain to cover cargoes under the Law of Espionage of the United States, which is reaching a critical stage in London this week,” he argued in an editorial The Guardian.

“The solicitation does not represent only a plight for Assange personally. Furthermore, as this newspaper has consistently argued for many years, an iniquity plight for the period, with global implications. It raises the most fundamental concerns regarding freedom of expression. Only for these people For these reasons, we must fully oppose the extradition of Assange”, added the diary.

The accusation

Following the indictment, on March 7, 2010, Manning and Assange discussed the value of information on the evaluation of detainees in Guantanamo Bay.

The tax officials say they have judicial documents that suggest that Manning said he was “arrojando everything that he held on the JTF (joint labor force) GTMO (Guantanamo Bay) in Assange now.”

The periodicals say that later I told Assange: “After this load, that’s all I really want.” To what Assange replied: “With my experience, curious eyes never dry up.”

The following day, the accusation alleges that Assange “accepted help Manning to decipher a code, stored on the computers of the Department of Defense of the United States, connected to the secret protocol of the Internet”.

“Manning can start a session on the computers with a user name that does not apply to you,” read the message. He adds that Assange proposed special software to hack the system.

“Manning used the computer to download everything WikiLeaks subsequently published,” the lawsuit concluded between March 28 and April 9.

The Manning case

Manning was arrested, convicted by a North American war council and later declared guilty of various espionage crimes in 2013, and sentenced to 35 years of prison.

Days before shipping the cargo in 2017, President Barack Obama reduced his sentence and was freed.

But he was arrested again in 2019, after being unable to declare himself in a major jury investigation into WikiLeaks and his participation in the current elections in 2016.

The state officials said they were right Russian interference in the vote. But Assange has never been accused in a relationship with this accusation.

WikiLeaks published pirated electronic reports from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, which caused Democrats to turn to the website, along with the Russian state and Donald Trump’s campaign team in 2016.

When Assange was arrested in the Ecuadorian embassy in May 2019, the accusation was revealed in his country, revealing only one charge of “conspiracy”.

Assange is Australian and his country claims he is sent back to his country. He holds two men with his Spanish abogada, conceived when he was detained in the Embassy of Ecuador, until he lost the right of asylum that had been granted to him by the Ecuadorian government of Rafael Correa.

There he was appealed to the British authorities and from there he asked for his release and to stop his extradition to United States.