Priti Patel, Secretary of State for the Home Department, now has to make one of the most important decisions of her career: will she bow to heavy pressure from the United States and send a vulnerable man who has been convicted of no crime to face an indeterminate number of years in an American jail

The British home secretary, Priti Patel, will decide this month whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States, where he faces a sentence of up to 175 years – served most likely in strict, 24-hour isolation in a US super-max jail.He has already spent three years in similarly harsh c

Just thirteen days before World Press Freedom Day 2022 the very existence of world press freedom inched closer to its possible demise. On April 20, a U.K. court formally approved extradition of WikiLeaks founder and Australian journalist, Julian Assange, to the United States to be tried under the Es

A London court on Wednesday ordered the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, the latest but not the last step in a long-running battle in British courtrooms. The order to extradite Assange, who is being sought by the US in connection with charges under the Espion

A British judge on Wednesday formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. The case will now go to Britain's interior minister for a decision, though the WikiLeaks founder still has legal avenues of appeal.The order, which brings and end to the

The continued imprisonment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a “criminal act”, his wife has said.Stella Assange was speaking on the third anniversary of her husband being dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London.He has since been held in Belmarsh prison in the capital while the US seeks

The three-year anniversary of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's arrest is spurring a renewed push for Australia to step up diplomatic efforts to secure his release.The 50-year-old Australian was dragged from London's Ecuador Embassy on April 11 in 2019 to face extradition to the United Stat

HEWN in to human rights legislation borne of fascism’s decline in the mid-20th century is a pool of glorious protections of civil liberties and press freedoms. It is deep, but it is not entirely immune from attack. Political opportunists undermine it in regular waves, repressing dissidence in their

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being made an example of by the US government to deter investigative journalists from exposing state abuses, the current UN Special Rapporteur on torture says.Nearly 12 years ago Wikileaks published the Afghan War Diary, one of the biggest leaks in US military his

Stella Moris - mother of Julian Assange’s two youngest children and his wife, as of Wednesday - always knew it wasn’t going to be an ordinary wedding.Pictures of the South African-born lawyer turned freedom-of-information campaigner smiling outside HMP Belmarsh in a bespoke silver Vivienne Westwood