Lawyers for Julian Assange on Tuesday made a desperate effort to avoid his extradition to the United States after combating it for more than a years.
Facing espionage charges, the WikiLeaks creator has currently seen numerous efforts to battle extradition declined. Addressing the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Assange’s legal group lookedfor a brand-new appeal hearing as hundreds of fans rallied outside with “Free Julian Assange” indications.
His attorneys compete that his actions exposed considerable criminal misbehavior by U.S. authorities and that their customer dangers “flagrant rejection of justice” if required to the U.S.
“He is being prosecuted for appealing in regular journalistic practice of getting and publishing categorized details, info that is both real and of apparent and essential public interest,” Edward Fitzgerald, Assange’s lead attorney, informed the court.
Assange is dealingwith 17 charges of espionage, along with one charge of computersystem abuse o