Julian Assange to Find out If Appeal Against Extradition to Us Can Proceed

Julian Assange to Find out If Appeal Against Extradition to Us Can Proceed (1)

Julian Assange will learn if his appeal against extradition to the United States may be heard.

Julian Assange will soon learn if he may petition the Supreme Court to challenge the decision to extradite him to the United States.

Assange, 50, is sought in the United States for an alleged conspiracy involving the publishing of hundreds of thousands of secret documents connected to the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts by Wikileaks.

In December of last year, the US government won a High Court challenge to overturn a ruling that Assange should not be extradited due to a real and “oppressive” risk of suicide.

Stella Moris, Assange’s girlfriend, called the High Court judgment “dangerous and foolish,” and said the Wikileaks founder’s attorneys planned to appeal to the Supreme Court.

A case must raise a point of law of “wide public concern” for a prospective appeal to be heard by the UK’s top court.

The High Court will rule on whether this applies in Assange’s case on Monday, in what is anticipated to be a brief spoken verdict.

If the justices conclude that there is no point of law, Assange will be unable to file an appeal with the Supreme Court, and the extradition request would be sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel for approval.

Assange’s lawyers, Birnberg Peirce Solicitors, have said that the case involved “serious and crucial” legal problems, including a “dependence” on promises from the US concerning the jail conditions he would suffer if extradited.

Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and Lord Justice Holroyde’s ruling is expected at 10.45 a.m.

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