LONDON: The British High Court is set to rule Friday about whether to reverse the previous decision and allow founders of Wikileaks Julian Assange to be sent to the United States to face allegations of espionage.
The lower court judge earlier this year rejected American demand to extradite Assange to the US to face accusations of spying on WikiLeaks publications from the secret military documents.
Vanessa Baraitser District Judge denied extradition on the ground of health, said Assange would likely commit suicide if it was held under the condition of a hard US prison.
According to the decision in the High Court in London, a lawyer for the US government denied that Assange’s mental health was too fragile to hold the US justice system.
Lawyer James Lewis said Assange “did not have a history of serious and eternal mental illness” and did not fulfill his threshold became very sick so he could not help himself.
The US authorities also told British judges that if they agreed to extradite Assange, he could serve a US prison sentence he received in Australia’s origin.
The US prosecutor has charged Assange on 17 allegations of espionage and one charge of computer abuse for the publication of Wikileaks from thousands of military and diplomatic documents leaking.
The cost brought a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison, even though Lewis said “the longest punishment that was ever charged for this violation was 63 months.” Assange, 50, is currently being held at the London High Security Belmarsh Prison.
Which side loses Friday decisions tend to appeal.