US reportedly considering plea deal offer for Julian Assange

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US reportedly considering plea deal offer for Julian Assange​

Wed 20 Mar 2024 17.59 EDT

The US government is reported to be considering a plea deal offer to Julian Assange, allowing him to admit to a misdemeanor, but his lawyers say they have been “given no indication” Washington intends to change its approach.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the US justice department was looking at ways to cut short the long London court battle of the WikiLeaks founder against extradition to the US on espionage charges for the publication 14 years ago of thousands of classified US documents related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

The report said a plan under consideration would be to drop the current 18 charges under the Espionage Act, if Assange pleaded guilty to mishandling classified documents, a misdemeanor offence. Assange would be able to enter the plea remotely from London and would likely be free soon after the deal was agreed to, as he has already spent five years in custody in the UK.

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US reportedly considering plea deal offer for Julian Assange

But lawyers for WikiLeaks founder say they have been ‘given no indication’ Washington will change approach in espionage case

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The US Government’s Plot to Murder Julian Assange

While dictators kill troublesome journalists with guns and missiles, democracies can afford to be more patient. But the end result is the same.

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View from outside London's High Court as its ruling on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be able to appeal against extradition from Britain to the United States is handed down.

 

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So if the High Court rules he has run out of appeals, they stick him in a metal tube and hurl him across the ocean to Ummerika?

 

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A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won't get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site's publication of classified American documents.

Two High Court judges said they would grant Assange a new appeal unless U.S. authorities give further assurances within three weeks about what will happen to him. The ruling means the legal saga, which has dragged on for more than a decade, will continue — and Assange will remain inside London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison, where he has spent the last five years.

Judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson said the U.S. must guarantee that Assange, who is Australian, “is afforded the same First Amendment protections as a United States citizen, and that the death penalty is not imposed.”
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/u...-until-us-rules-out-death-penalty/ar-BB1kyCC7

 

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They are going to make him say it was Trump's fault.