Julian Assange, if convicted, may resist 175 years in jail.
Sydney, Australia:
Australia won’t problem Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the USA and has confidence within the British judicial system, a senior authorities minister stated Thursday.
A British courtroom issued a proper order Wednesday for the Australian nationwide to be extradited to the USA, the place he would face trial for the publication of a trove of secret information regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If convicted, he may resist 175 years in jail.
“We have now confidence within the independence and integrity of the British justice system,” Australian Senator Simon Birmingham instructed the nationwide broadcaster ABC Thursday.
Australia’s authorities was not arguing towards the extradition, he stated.
“It is a course of that may be capable of proceed to work via that system,” stated Birmingham, who’s Australia’s finance minister.
Following the British courtroom’s order, Assange’s legal professionals have till Could 18 to make submissions to Britain’s inside minister Priti Patel, with whom the ultimate determination about his extradition rests.
Birmingham famous that Assange’s proper of enchantment remained — he can search enchantment to the Excessive Courtroom — and stated Australia would proceed to offer consular help to its jailed citizen.
A coalition of 25 human rights teams — together with the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch and Reporters With out Borders — has challenged Assange’s extradition saying it poses a “grave menace to press freedom each in the USA and overseas”.
The Australian has been preventing to keep away from extradition for greater than a decade, dramatically taking refuge within the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 to keep away from extradition to Sweden over sexual assault expenses.
He has been held in London’s high-security Belmarsh jail since 2019 for skipping bail on the Swedish expenses, which had been dropped in 2020.
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