{"id":2248646,"date":"2024-05-20T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/julian-assange-granted-right-to-appeal-extradition-to-us\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T13:11:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T17:11:02","slug":"julian-assange-granted-right-to-appeal-extradition-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/julian-assange-granted-right-to-appeal-extradition-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange has been granted the right to appeal his extradition to the US"},"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\">28<\/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-right-to-appeal-extradition-to-us%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=2248646&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>Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks,\u2063 was \u2063granted the right to challenge his extradition to the United States, enhancing his legal standing. Following\u2063 the termination of his asylum in\u2063 the Ecuadorian Embassy, Assange\u2062 has been in UK custody since 2019 due\u200b to an unrelated\u200b Swedish case. UK authorities apprehended\u2063 him for bail violation, sentencing him to \u200d50 weeks in prison. The information provided gives a detailed\u2064 summary of \u200bJulian Assange&#8217;s\u2064 situation regarding \u200chis extradition to the\u2064 United States, the termination of his \u200basylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy, his custody in the UK, \u2063and the reasons for his arrest\u2062 and sentencing.  <\/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<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/wikileaks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wikileaks\">WikiLeaks<\/a> founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/julian-assange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wikileaks\">Julian Assange<\/a> was granted the right to challenge his extradition to the United States, significantly improving his legal position.<\/p>\n<p>Assange has been held by U.K. authorities since 2019 after Ecuador ended his seven-year asylum stay in its Embassy in London over an unrelated rape case in Sweden, which was later dropped. U.K. police dragged Assange out of the Embassy and sentenced him to 50 weeks in prison for jumping bail in 2012. However, in May 2019, the U.S. indicted Assange on 18 charges related to WikiLeaks\u2019s publishing of over half a million classified documents relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>A protester stands outside the High Court in London, Monday, May 20, 2024. A British court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal against an order that he be extradited to the U.S. on espionage charges.(AP Photo\/Kin Cheung)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If convicted, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalists-and-lawyers-who-met-with-julian-assange-sue-cia-mike-pompeo-over-alleged-spying\/\" title=\"Journalists And Lawyers Who Met With Julian Assange Sue CIA, Mike Pompeo Over Alleged Spying\">faces 175 years<\/a> in prison. He has spent the past five years battling his extradition, which has been repeatedly delayed.<\/p>\n<p>His extradition was first delayed in January 2021 after a U.K. judge ruled that he was likely to kill himself in harsher U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-press-biden-to-get-tough-on-cuba\/\" title=\"House Republicans Press Biden to Get Tough on Cuba\">prison conditions<\/a>. Rulings went back and forth in the following years, with the main concern being whether Assange could be guaranteed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-on-impeachment-senate-will-conduct-a-timely-and-fair-trial\/\" title=\"Schumer on Impeachment: Senate will conduct a timely and fair trial\">fair trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian dissident\u2019s latest victory came on Monday when his last-ditch attempt to prevent his extradition succeeded. A new trial date hasn\u2019t been given yet.<\/p>\n<p>Assange\u2019s prosecution has become a source of major controversy, with battling concerns over free speech and national security. His supporters hail him as a hero of free speech and government transparency, while critics deride him as a tool of foreign intelligence agencies who endangered U.S. intelligence agents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Supporters and opponents in the U.S. defy a typical party binary, with Republicans and Democrats on both sides of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>In April, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/2960833\/biden-considering-ending-prosecution-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> he was \u201cconsidering\u201d ending the prosecution of Assange.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has been given the opportunity to contest his extradition to the US, marking a pivotal development in his legal battle. Arrested in 2019 by UK officials following the termination of his asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy, Assange&#8217;s extradition challenge stems from an incident in Sweden that was subsequently dismissed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2248647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24141485664121-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24141485664121-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248646","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\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}