{"id":2206361,"date":"2024-03-26T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/julian-assange-granted-limited-appeal-to-challenge-extradition-to-u-s\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T13:45:45","slug":"julian-assange-granted-limited-appeal-to-challenge-extradition-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/julian-assange-granted-limited-appeal-to-challenge-extradition-to-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange allowed a partial appeal against 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\">18<\/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%2Fjulian-assange-granted-limited-appeal-to-challenge-extradition-to-u-s%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=2206361&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>A British \u200dHigh \u2063Court grants Julian \u2063Assange\u200b limited appeal\u2062 for extradition to the United \u200bStates. The US must provide assurances by April 16 regarding his\u2063 rights under\u200c the First Amendment and \u200dprevent \u200dprejudice due to his nationality. Assange faces extradition \u2063since 2019\u200b for \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-julian-assange-was-not-chosen-as-time-magazines-person-of-the-year\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: No, Julian Assange Was Not Chosen As Time Magazine\u2019s Person Of The Year\">publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">classified documents<\/a><\/a> \u200bin 2010. Concerns about consequences of his actions have been raised by organizations like The Heritage Foundation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A British High Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/26\/world\/europe\/julian-assange-uk-court-us-extradition.html?smtyp=cur&#038;smid=tw-nytimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">granted<\/a> Julian Assange limited leave to appeal his extradition to the United States from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States has until April 16 to provide \u201cassurances\u201d that Assange \u201cis permitted to rely on the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-agencies-are-regulating-radically-rapidly\/\" title=\"Biden Agencies Are Regulating Radically, Rapidly\">protects free speech<\/a>), that he is not prejudiced at trial (including sentence) by reason of his nationality, that he is afforded the same First Amendment protections as a United States citizen and that the death penalty is not imposed\u201d or else the court will grant Assange the right to a full appeal hearing regarding his extradition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States has sought to extradite Assange since 2019, having accused him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing in 2010 tens of thousands of classified documents he obtained from Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Heritage Foundation has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/crime-and-justice\/commentary\/julian-assange-should-not-be-pardoned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pointed out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>A formal government review of Assange\u2019s actions and of their consequences found the following:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Multiple lives were lost and others were put at risk.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>U.S. diplomatic relations were severely harmed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Foreign militaries changed their tactics and procedures\u2014making them more difficult to predict and counter.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Key intelligence sources and methods were lost or disrupted.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Tens of millions of taxpayer funds were wasted responding to or mitigating the threat posed by these illegal disclosures.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAssange, a self-proclaimed \u2018famous teenage hacker in Australia,\u2019 has a long history of actively encouraging and recruiting individuals to hack into non-public systems to obtain sensitive classified information, often telling those individuals how to exploit system vulnerabilities and providing those individuals with a list of targets,\u201d the Heritage Foundation added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In late 2010, Assange moved from Great Britain to Sweden, where the police issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/italy-arrests-suspected-terrorist-living-in-migrant-reception-facility\/\" title=\"Italy Arrests Suspected Terrorist Living in Migrant Reception Facility\">international arrest warrant<\/a> for him after accusations of sexual assault. In June 2012, the Ecuadorean Embassy in London offered him asylum, which lasted until 2019, at which point the United States indicted him for violating the Espionage Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assange was then arrested; in 2021, a British judge denied the extradition order, a decision that was reversed by the British High Court. In 2022, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition request.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the decision released Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-of-two-wisconsin-supreme-court-rulings-give-president-trump-the-win-should-be-enough-votes-to-win-the-state\/\" title=\"One of Two Wisconsin Supreme Court Rulings Give President Trump the Win \u2013 Should Be Enough Votes to Win the State\">court noted<\/a>, \u201cTurning however to the 2003 Act, the starting point is that the language of section 81(a) is clear. It precludes extradition where extradition is for the purpose of prosecuting the requested person on account of their political opinions. It says nothing, however, about preventing extradition for a political offence. Although there may be a degree of overlap, the two are separate concepts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1711543561428000&#038;usg=AOvVaw27HCc4SlNuAzsp-mheIL9C\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Assange\u2019s lawyers say he could be sentenced to 175 years in prison in America, the U.S. government\u2019s attorneys say it is more likely he would be sentenced to four to six years in prison.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Assange granted limited appeal by UK High Court for extradition to the US. The US must secure assurances by April 16 regarding his rights under the First Amendment to the US Constitution, safeguarding free speech, and ensuring he won&#8217;t face inhumane treatment if extradited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2206362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-685314508-scaled-e1623507721711.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-685314508-scaled-e1623507721711.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206361","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}