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Australian lawmakers pass motion calling for release of WikiLeaks founder

Australia's House of Representatives has ramped up pressure on the United States and Britain to end the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by passing a motion calling for the Australian citizen to be allowed to return to his home country. Independent lawmaker Andrew Wilkie moved the motion on Wednesday one week ahead of Britain's High Court of Justice hearing Assange's appeal against extradition to the United States on espionage charges. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among the 86 lawmakers who voted for the motion that called on the United States and Britain to bring the "matter to a close so that Mr. Assange can return home to his family in Australia. The motion was opposed by 42 lawmakers including most of the main opposition party that unsuccessfully proposed amendments. Leaders of both the government and the opposition have publicly stated that the United States' pursuit of the 52-year-old had dragged on for too long. Assange has been in London's

Julian Assange loses latest bid to stop extradition to US on spying charges

A British judge has rejected the latest attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to fight extradition to the United States to face spying charges. High Court justice Jonathan Swift said a new appeal would simply re-run arguments that Assange's lawyers had already made and lost. Assange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the US, where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks' publication of classified diplomatic and military documents more than a decade ago. In 2021, a British district judge ruled that Assange should not be extradited because he was likely to kill himself if held under harsh US prison conditions. US authorities later provided assurances that the Australia-born Assange wouldn't face the severe treatment that his lawyers said would put his physical and mental health at risk. Those assurances led Britain's High Court and Supreme Court to overturn the lower court's ruling, and the British government

US effort to extradite WikiLeaks founder Assange not worth it: Australia PM

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed frustration at the United States' continuing efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange, saying: There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration. Albanese's comments Friday in an Australian Broadcasting Corp. interview appeared to escalate diplomatic pressure on the United States to drop the charges against the 51-year-old Assange, who has spent four years in Britain's Belmarsh Prison fighting extradition to the United States. Before that, Assange had taken asylum for seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Albanese said Assange's case had to be examined in terms of whether the time Assange had effectively served was in excess of what would be reasonable if the allegations against him were proved. I just say that enough is enough. There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration, Albanese said. I know it's frustrating, I share the frustration. I can't do more than m

WikiLeaks founder's family brings release Julian Assange campaign to Mexico

This week the objective was to insert mention of Julian Assange into a meeting between Mexico's president and the United States' top diplomat. Next week, it will be to have Australia's prime minister bring it up with the U.S. president at Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. The efforts are part of the campaign by John Shipton, father of the WikiLeaks founder, to find allies and convince the U.S. to drop espionage charges against Assange, who remains in a British prison awaiting extradition to the U.S. The journey by the septuagenarian Australian architect together with another son, Gabriel, brought them this week to Mexico. The country has become the family's main ally in Latin America since President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador offered Assange political asylum and called for the U.S. to allow him to seek refuge there. We call President Lpez Obrador an ice-breaker, because afterward the leaders of Chile, Colombia and Bolivia called for his release too, Gabriel Shipton said during the visit

UK govt approves extradition of Assange to US; appeal possible

The British government has ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. He is likely to appeal.

Assange faces 175-year sentence in US as UK judge approves extradition

The case will now go to Britain's interior minister for a decision, and the WikiLeaks founder still has legal avenues of appeal

Julian Assange marries lawyer fiance in London prison

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange married his lawyer fiance on Wednesday in Belmarsh Prison in south-east London, where he is being held as he fights against being extradited to the US

Assange loses permission to appeal at UK's top court against extradition

The court said it refused because the case didn't raise an arguable point of law

Julian Assange wins right to appeal extradition in UK Supreme Court

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange was on Monday granted permission from the Supreme Court to appeal against his extradition order to the US.

UK High Court to rule on Julian Assange bid to prevent US extradition

Britain's High Court is set to rule Monday on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can take his fight against US extradition to the UK Supreme Court. The decision is the latest step in Assange's long battle to avoid being sent to the United States to face espionage charges over WikiLeaks' publication of classified documents more than a decade ago. Just over a year ago, a district court judge in London rejected a US extradition request on the grounds that Assange was likely to kill himself if held under harsh US prison conditions. US authorities later provided assurances that the WikiLeaks founder would not face the severely restrictive conditions that his lawyers said would put his physical and mental health at risk. Last month the High Court overturned the lower court's decision. High Court justices Ian Burnett and Timothy Holroyd said the American promises were enough to guarantee Assange would be treated humanely. They said the US promises were solemn undertakings, offered

UK High Court grants WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to US

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the US to face espionage charges, the Royal Courts of Justice ruled here on Friday as the body overturned a lower court ruling earlier this year.

WikiLeaks founder Assange one step closer to extradition to United States

The 50-year-old Australian has been charged in the US under the Espionage Act for his role in publishing thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010 and 2011

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange given permission to marry partner in prison

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted permission to marry his partner, Stella Moris, in prison, British authorities say

US authorities granted more grounds to appeal on Julian Assange extradition

Britain's High Court on Wednesday granted US authorities permission to expand their grounds for appealing an earlier UK court decision to block the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Nirav Modi's lawyers rely on Assange extradition block for hearings in UK

Nirav Modi's lawyer raised a British court's judgment blocking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US on mental health grounds

UK court denies bail to Julian Assange in US extradition case: Report

He will remain in London's high-security Belmarsh prison, where he's been for nearly two years

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied bail in British court

Assange has been jailed in Britain since 2019 as he fights extradition to the United States

Unlikely to be free anytime soon, Assange's fight for freedom far from over

This "is not the end of the story," said Jasvinder Nakhwal, an extradition lawyer at Peters & Peters in London who wasn't involved in Assange's hearing

Julian Assange extradition blocked as UK judge cites health concerns

US attorneys will appeal London ruling

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