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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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.

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

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces U.S. extradition judgment day​

  • Assange could be extradited within 24 hours of the ruling
  • London High Court set to rule on US assurances
  • Assange has been involved in legal battles since 2010
LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - A British court could give a final decision on Monday on whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States over the mass leak of secret U.S. documents, the culmination of 13 years of legal battles and detentions.

Two judges at the High Court in London are set to rule on whether the court is satisfied by U.S. assurances that Assange, 52, would not face the death penalty and could rely on the First Amendment right to free speech if he faced a U.S. trial for spying.

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US assurances aren't worth anything. Assange is a persecution target. The machine will grind him up if it gets the chance.
 

Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the U.S., a British court has ruled​

A court in London has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can now pursue an appeal against the British government's decision to approve his extradition to the United States.

The decision Monday by two judges on Britain's High Court of Justice clears the way for a full appeal hearing of that extradition, in which Assange's lawyers can argue that his First Amendment rights under the U.S. constitution may be limited by his nationality. Assange is an Australian citizen, and neither a citizen nor national of the United States.

The U.S. wants to charge him with 17 acts of espionage and one count of computer misuse, for an alleged conspiracy to take possession of and then publish national defense information.

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Hope he did not flip to the see eye ayyyy.
 
Dead man trigger time...

RFK Jnr said:
the bad news is that he had to plea guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence info. Which means the US security state succeeded in criminalising journalism and extending their jurisdiction globally to non-citizens.
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