British home secretary Priti Patel will now decide whether to provide extradition; His lawyer can launch fresh appeal.
UK. On Wednesday issued an official order to extradite the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange to U8 to face trials on secret file publications related to the Iraq and Afghan war.
The decision now leaned against the Minister of Home Affairs Priti Patel, although Mr. Assange may still appeal within 14 days after the decision to approve extradition. The verdict by a judge in London was carrying a long-term legal story in the UK. Closer to conclusions.
But lawyer Mr. Assange has until May 18 to make representations to Ms. Patel and potentially launched further appeal about other points in this case.
“There was no appeal to the High Court has not been submitted to him in connection with other important issues that he adopted before,” said his lawyer Birnberg Peirce Solicitors in a statement last month. “Separate appeal process, of course, hasn’t started.”
This case has been the cause of Celebrre for media freedom, with supporters of Mr. Assange accused Washington trying to report legitimate security issues.
‘Travesty of Justice’
Outside the court, the protesters hold Aloft placards who request “Don’t Extradition Assange” and attach the yellow ribbon #FreeSange to the wall outside the court.
Journalists and Campaign of Assange Carolina Graterol, from Venezuela, called the verdict “another day in the death of democracy at U.K.” “The position taken by the judge in signing an extradition request … is the parody of justice. I think he will die sadly in prison if he is sent,” he said.
Mr.