LONDON: The UK High Court on Wednesday gave permission to the authorities to us to expand their reasons for appealing before.
Vanessa Baritser District Court judge ruled in January that Assange was likely to commit suicide if it was held under the condition of a hard US prison.
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Clair Dobbin, a lawyer who represented the US authorities during the hearing of the High Court on Wednesday, said Assange – who he said “set one of the biggest theft of data in history” – does not fulfill the threshold “so sick” so he cannot refuse harm alone.
He said the decision not to demand or extradite someone would need “mental illness of the type whose ability to fight suicide was lost.” Assange’s condition was not approaching was that nature, and he had not made a serious effort on his previous life, he argued.
Dobbin also tried to discredit evidence from Assange’s psychiatric experts, a key witness, on the grounds that he misleads Baraiters by hiding the fact that the 50-year-old Australia has become the father of two children during the time of hiding at the Ecuador Embassy in London.
Two judges agreed on Wednesday to give US authority permission to expand the reason for the interesting Bandaitser decision to block extradition.
Full appeal hearing is expected in October.
Assange, wearing a dark face mask, listening to the video link from the London High-Security Belmarsh Prison, where he has been held since 2019.
Outside the court, Mitra Assange, Stella Moris, described it as “innocent man who was accused of practicing journalism.” “For Every day that this colossal injustice was allowed to continue, Julian’s situation was getting desperate, “Moris, who has two small children with Assange, told supporters and journalists.
“Julian has denied his family’s love and love for so long.
Julian and children will never get it back.
This shouldn’t happen,” he added.
A group of protesters, including Jeremy Corbyn, a former leader of the British Opposition Labor Party, held reading Plaque “Journalism is not a crime” and shouting “Free Julian Assange!” With a knock on the drum when the police looked at.
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It has charged Assange at 17 espionage costs and one charge of computer abuse for the publication of WikiLeaks of thousands of past military and diplomatic documents.
The accusation brought a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison.
In January, Baraiters, district judges, received evidence from expert witnesses who assange had depression disorders and autism spectrum disorders.
He agreed that the condition of the US prison would oppress, say there was a “real risk” he would be sent to the maximum administrative facility in Florence, Colorado, the highest security prison in the US.
But he rejected the defense argument that Assange faced politically motivated American prosecution which would overwrite free speech protection.
He said the US judicial system would give him a fair trial.
Supporters and lawyers for Assange argue that he acts as a journalist and has the right to the protection of the first amendment of freedom of speech to publish documents that expose US military errors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
However, lawyers for the US government, however, said that this case was largely based on “he violated the involvement” in theft of diplomatic cables and military files by US Army Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
Assange was arrested in London in 2010 at the request of Sweden, who wanted to ask him about accusations of rape and sexual violence carried out by two women.
In 2012, Assange jumped collateral and looked for protection at the Ecuador Embassy in London, where he remained hiding for the next seven years.
Ecuador pulled the asylum had given him in 2019 and he was then immediately arrested for violating guarantees.
Sweden dropped the investigation of sex crimes in November 2019 because so much time had passed.
Dobbin, representing the US government, said on Wednesday that the need to examine the January decision “increased substantially” considering the “extraordinary long” assange that had been lost to avoid extradition.
“He is willing to break the law and there is no amount that is too large, both in terms of his police charge at the embassy and of course the cost for himself,” he said.
This case continues and reading full appeal is scheduled for October 27.
The US provides more reasons to appeal on assange extradition
