{"id":1234829,"date":"2022-01-24T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1234829"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:37:33","slug":"wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-wins-right-to-appeal-u-s-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-wins-right-to-appeal-u-s-extradition\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Wins Right to Appeal U.S. Extradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwikileaks-founder-julian-assange-wins-right-to-appeal-u-s-extradition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1234829&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the first stage of his effort to overturn a U.K. ruling that made possible his extradition to the U.S. to face espionage charges.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court in London gave the Australian permission to appeal the case to the U.K. Supreme Court. But the Supreme Court must agree to accept the case before it can progress, AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-london-europe-extradition-julian-assange-df65767672ea8bd66c41f361ec3e44d3\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake, we won today in court,\u201d Assange\u2019s fiancee, Stella Moris, said outside the courthouse before noting he remains in custody at Belmarsh Prison in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will fight this until Julian is free,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Assange&nbsp;is wanted in the U.S. over the publication of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doctors Call For Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange to Get \u2018Urgent\u2019 Treatment in UK Hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tdaRxMthpW\">https:\/\/t.co\/tdaRxMthpW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1198931587661852672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If he had not won the right to seek an appeal, Assange\u2019s case would have gone directly to Home Secretary Priti Patel for a final decision on whether he should be sent to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Burnett, the Lord Chief Justice, said Assange\u2019s case had raised a legal question over the circumstances in which judges received and considered assurances from the U.S. about how he would be treated in prison.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19602474\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237951446.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19602474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237951446-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Stella Moris (C), partner of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, makes a statement outside the High Court in London on January 24, 2022. (DANIEL LEAL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19602522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237951065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19602522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237951065-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hold a placard during a protest against his extradition to the U.S. outside the High Court in London on January 24, 2022. (DANIEL LEAL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Assange has no guarantee of a hearing despite being able to petition the Supreme Court. In practice this means his case may take many more months to come to a conclusion, the AP report outlined.<\/p>\n<p>The Wikileaks documents alleged the U.S. military had killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents during the war in Afghanistan, while leaked Iraq war files claimed some 66,000 civilians had been killed and prisoners tortured by Iraqi forces.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Questions Over Potential Assange Asassination Attempt After Foiled Break-in at Embassy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/58iEeY64PA\">https:\/\/t.co\/58iEeY64PA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uULdowUqpl\">pic.twitter.com\/uULdowUqpl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/767741922160971776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. says the leaks broke the law and endangered lives but Assange says the case is politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Assange\u2019s lawyers now have 14 days to make the application to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-60108379\">reports<\/a> the Committee to Protect Journalists cautiously welcomed the High Court ruling and said if Assange were to be prosecuted in the U.S. it \u201cwould set a deeply harmful legal precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the first stage of his effort to overturn a U.K. ruling that made possible his extradition to the U.S. to face espionage charges. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}