The long-running legal saga in Britain's courts is now nearing a conclusion after Assange lost successive rulings in recent years. If he fails with this latest appeal bid, he could be extradited within weeks.
Washington indicted the WikiLeaks founder multiple times between 2018 and 2020 over its publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic files. The long-running legal saga in Britain's courts is now nearing a conclusion after Assange lost successive rulings in recent years. If he fails with this latest appeal bid, he could be extradited within weeks.
On the second of two days of evidence before two High Court judges, Clair Dobbin, a lawyer for the US, argued that Assange had 'solicited' secret US military and diplomatic files and, in publishing them 'indiscriminately' without redactions, that his actions were 'unprecedented' and not journalism
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