UK decide sends extradition case of Wikileaks’ Assange to inside minister Patel

A UK decide has despatched the case of Julian Assange to inside minister Priti Patel, who will determine whether or not the Wikileaks founder must be extradited to US.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, Britain February 5, 2016. (Photo: Reuters File)

A British decide on Wednesday despatched the case of Julian Assange to inside minister Priti Patel, who will determine whether or not the Wikileaks founder must be extradited to the United States over the discharge of confidential US paperwork.

The procedural step, in what has been a long-running and high-profile authorized battle, was introduced at a listening to in central London following a March determination to disclaim Australian-born Assange permission to attraction towards his extradition.

The extradition order should now be signed by Patel, after which Assange can attempt to problem the choice by judicial assessment. A judicial assessment entails a decide inspecting the legitimacy of a public physique’s determination.

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Assange, 50, is needed within the United States on 18 felony prices, together with breaking a spying regulation, after WikiLeaks revealed hundreds of secret US recordsdata in 2010.

He denies any wrongdoing.

Assange has been in a southeast London jail since 2019, and earlier than that was holed up within the Ecuadorean Embassy within the British capital for seven years.