British High Court Grants WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange the Right to Appeal U.S. Extradition
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the right to appeal his extradition to the United States. Assange's lawyers argued before the British High Court that the U.S. government provided "blatantly inadequate" assurances that Assange would have the same free speech protections as an American citizen if extradited from Britain. Assange has spent more than a decade facing the threat of extradition to the U.S., where he faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. "This is a victory for Julian Assange in that he lives on to fight another day, his case lives on to fight another day. But he's not out of Belmarsh [Prison] yet, and he's not in the clear yet," says Chip Gibbons, policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent. "This could still end in him being sent to the U.S. And the person who can stop this is Joe Biden and Merrick Garland."
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Stop prosecuting whistle blowers
@@JackFromWyomingit's not. My grandfather opposed a dictatorship and although him and the family paid with poverty and destruction of career, he left us dignity, luck and we inherited spiritual gifts and principles. ❤ To have the strength to do the right thing is already a gift. Congratulations
I imagine most of us think the ability to do a good or great job reporters must not be sent to prison for the rest of their lives. Whistleblowers who are also reporters and journalists keep our government’s honest.
Stop pumping gas debtor's prison life
@@ripadipaflipa4672 Here's the honost Answer. Whistleblowers have protected rights and so do Reporters. But Publishing classified documents on the web is not protected. That's the criminal thing. If he would have TALKED or WRITTEN about it he'd be free and clear. That's the Judicial reasoning here in the US.He can argue his point but he's not being charged with "Reporting or Speaking" That's why Free speech is not a defense, technically.
Respectfully: Assange is a miserable crying worm. Your typical Ukrainian teenage volunteer marches toward high certainty of death or dreadful injury, Assange cries and screams that he might be judged by his peers and sentenced to a life of food & shelter. Does he have any courage of conviction? Even a lowlife like Donald Trump shows more backbone than Julian Assange.
The individual means zero to me, I could not care less what becomes of him.
Keeping Assange in jail knowing he's no threat to anyone is a crime in itself.
He may be a threat to the blue communism movement.
@@josefeibl8230 brooooo that's deep
@@josefeibl8230 what's that
@@eniggma9353 Tucker Carlson?
Former US PRESIDENT Geroge Bush in prison for war crimes in Iraq in 2003
I'm a US war veteran. FREE Assange, and do it NOW.
Thank you for your service, my friend. 💛
Thank you for speaking out and for standing up against censorship and oppression! 💜
yeah, so am I 21 years worth. And I think he should be in prison the rest of his life.
@larssandvik1347 …. The CIA love you.
@@larssandvik1347Ew....please don't breed. We don't need more hate on the planet.
This case is heartbreaking an innocent man in jail while the criminals walk free.
The criminals walk free and continue to commit crimes and wreak havoc world wide, any place they choose AND they are getting filthy rich in the process!
That is the world we live in. Loads of blind and brainwashed people choose these *ssholes without thinking what they did
Especially the AMERICAN country which was infiltrated with NAZIs paperclip operation with its secret conspiratorial society connections
In Trump we have an American Ex-president who openly stole, gave, and colluded, by sell or otherwise "Top Secret" documents including nuclear codes far beyond what Assange did and yet our corrupted government may still execute Assange but not Trump. Without shame, they only charge the ex-president with lessor crimes and make sure that it never reaches a court date. When are we going to be fair and up Trump's charges to a capital offense, and at the least put him in prison for life? Assange was only an Australien journalist, who in many ways helped uncover much of our government corruption.
Assange published Hillary Clintons incriminating e-mails. He took a huge risk doing that. Read "blood gate".
The British justice system should never have arrested Assange - he should have been free to go 10 years ago
The AKC registered pedigrees of nato poodles are well trained.
The elites have to maintain control. Their lives probably depend on it.
@@TheSakufighter It is a tangled web we weave.
The British judicial system is only British in name .It is just an arm of the Pentagon of reality.
Obamas crime establishment made that happen
Let him free to go home. This is just a political stunt and torture of a human being.
Gestapo tactics.
He should have never been jailed! Free him! Give him back to austrailia!
but he'' insult '' satanic witch hillary ..... that is something which not be tolerate in ''freest countries'' She was insulted by TRUTH.
Who would want to live in a highly treasonous gutless country like Australia.
Australia just jailed a whistle blower for revealing Australian Defense Force war crimes.
Free Assange!
Reward whistleblowers!
Here's the honost Answer. Whistleblowers have protected rights and so do Reporters. But Publishing classified documents on the web is not protected. That's the criminal thing. If he would have TALKED or WRITTEN about it he'd be free and clear. That's the Judicial reasoning here in the US.He can argue his point but he's not being charged with "Reporting or Speaking" That's why Free speech is not a defense, technically.
@@tinydancer_ BOOTLICKER
@@harmonymeditation816 And your point is?
@@tinydancer_ i notice you haven't replied to my other comment you made which shows what my point is. your government was involved in war crimes. Assange is only in this position because he embarrassed your government. To date no one has been able to demonstrate that he has endangered anyone or that he released anything that was of actual intelligence importance. Your country isn't above the law, especially when they have given themselves the job of the world's police. you want to enforce the law than abide by it, your tyrannical government doesn't.
Calling out war crimes being committed by our government should not be a crime. Free the world 🌎🌍
It should be a duty!
@@aynos629 it is a duty.
Calling out war criminals makes you a criminal, supporting war criminals makes you Noble peace winner.
@@The-Heart-Will-TestifySad but True 😔😔
This is a test for free press and Western democracy.
And, in considering the entire case, both have already failed.
what happened to the test years ago when he was 1st imprisoned? No right to a expediated trial? Wait til he is near death?
A test the west is failing.
Is there anything left now, So called free press and western democracy?!! 👎
Both are now dead and probably always were a myth
Shame on the U.S FOR THE THIS!
And UK
Same @@aynos629
Shame on the current US Gov for many, many, MANY things
Shame on my country of Australia most of all for not standing up for their innocent citizen
YES!
Freedom for Julian Assange freedom for all freedom of speech. Freedom for Julian Assange xox ❤❤❤❤
How can the USA bring criminal charges against an Australian journalist? ARROGANCE
Here's the honost Answer. Whistleblowers have protected rights and so do Reporters. But Publishing classified documents on the web is not protected. That's the criminal thing. If he would have TALKED or WRITTEN about it he'd be free and clear. That's the Judicial reasoning here in the US.He can argue his point but he's not being charged with "Reporting or Speaking" That's why Free speech is not a defense, technically.
Exactly 💯😊
I believe he should be Free! Time served.
@@phay1966 That's a no go. Time served only works after if he's been tried and convicted. He's only been detained. It can be applied to his sentence however. That's the decision of the judge if convicted.
Still wrong. The court ruled that publishing electronically is the same as publishing on paper. Show the evidence that supports your claim or stop spreading lies.
@@ronstephen-wy4ib You are 100% correct. He can publish the STORY on paper or the intent. Most people consume their news electronically in this day and age. He can write a hundred books, no crime in that. He can give interviews and SPEAK about the content of the DOCUMENTS. Fair play. But publishing the actual Classified DOCUMENTS themselves IS HIGHLY illegal. Whether the content in them has moral merit is besides the point. Herein lies the problem. Unfortunately for Assange and family there is no moral component to this set of charges. There's no grey area in the US Criminal
Penal Code by statute. It's like being "a little bit pregnant. It's legal or it ain't in common parlance.
Absolutely evil. Let him go.
Shame on Biden. Free Julian, totally free.
Lock Biden up. And bin the key.
Shame on Trump, the Democrats and the Republicans. None of them stood on the right side of history.
@@caroleanneruncorn4794not only Biden but all previous warmongers, bush, Tony Blair, Obama, boris Johnson, and all NATO leaders.
Shame on who is pulling Bidens' strings, Who is the puppets' Master? Bidens mind is no longer with us., Free Julian : ))
But trump did nothing for assange, either.
So, there are those in the USA government who want to pick and choose which American laws should be recognized and which ones that they can ignore? 🤔 As an American, I am disgusted once again by our so-called "Justice" department.
Here's the honost Answer. Whistleblowers have protected rights and so do Reporters. But Publishing classified documents on the web is not protected. That's the criminal thing. If he would have TALKED or WRITTEN about it he'd be free and clear. That's the Judicial reasoning here in the US.He can argue his point but he's not being charged with "Reporting or Speaking" That's why Free speech is not a defense, technically.
We know there is no justice in US justice system. People are still doing life for petty drug charges, people killing us with chemicals living the high life.
Trump actually wanted to pardon him.
@@tinydancer_ why are u protecting war criminals?
Maybe Trump will pardon him. I hope so.
Julian Assange is the Joan of Arc of our era. His sacrifice will end the repression and dark age we are living in today.
It’s time to turn the tables and prosecute the ministers who have kept him locked up.
Absolutely.
Totally agree! 🌟
Yes,
I’m so glad he at least has this appeal. Please do not let him come to the US. Americans here are not able to be protected by our Constitution. Please.
It's really sad what's going on in your country...
@@minagica yes. It’s not the America I grew up in. Biden administration under Obama has destroyed any semblance of our Country. Our only hope is in Jesus.
Let him be free and Australia said they like and want him to be a free man there. He did nothing wrong just reporting the the heinous acts of the U.S. military so people could see how evil war really is!
I'd like to think that. But didn't Australia within the last week sentence to 5 years in prison a military lawyer who revealed war crimes?
Here's the honost Answer. Whistleblowers have protected rights and so do Reporters. But Publishing classified documents on the web is not protected. That's the criminal thing. If he would have TALKED or WRITTEN about it he'd be free and clear. That's the Judicial reasoning here in the US.He can argue his point but he's not being charged with "Reporting or Speaking" That's why Free speech is not a defense, technically.
Assange always was a hacker, it was his schtick. The last time he was charged Hollywood made the movie ‘Hackers’ and he may or may not have been at the premiere.
This 'honest' answer is bullshit.
Australia should have grown some gonads 12 years ago! SHAME on them for not defending their citizen!
Freedom of speech. Long live the Republic!
Non citizens are not protected by the first amendment.
The US government shows that it doesn’t give a DAMN about FREEDOM ,when it denies the First Amendment to someone because they are not Amurrikkkann! If they really believed in our Bill of Rights, they would apply them to ANYONE on the planet!
Recognizing that should be enough to disqualify the US government from this, or ANY case!
Free Assange!
When will America finally be accused? America must be held accountable for the war crimes in Iraq in 2003. Freedom for Julian Assange
Julian Assange 🙏♥️🗺🕊
All of their crimes !
America must be held accountable for crimes against black people first before they are held accountable for anything else.
Why do u think so many Iraqi vets have PTSD and alcoholic and drug addicted
The US has been in war since 1963. It’s why Kennedy was killed. Old men wanting to make money ! It’s temporary, because we all die and you can’t take it with hou
Free Julian Assange ✌️🙏✊️ being held without a trial!!! 😮😢
Free Assange and stop scapegoating whistleblowers!
It is funny how they have changed to definition of whistleblower now to include people who don’t steal files.🤔
Please release this poor, innocent man !!
This poor brave man - persecuted by criminal evil governments
@@gwyneth7812exactly 🎯
Realease this innocent man! Now!
Good. Julian must be freed from that godawful Belmarsh prison and given priority treatment in the best London hospital to recover his health. He is a hero in my mind!
Let's face it, they want to drag it out until he is dead! Free Julian Assange, nothing less!
This is a high security prison. There are no charges against him in the British judicial system. He's Australian, he never signed a non disclosure agreement as an American serviceman or civil servant. I don't get it.
The only thing he could be charged with is skipping bail which carries a fine. He has basically been imprisoned for five years without charge. Which is totally against the UK law. He should be sue the British government for millions. Unlawful detention
It's because he exposed there crimes
FRREEE ASSANGE!!!!!
Free Julian now! Enough of this corruption. Get the crimanals, not the crime fighter
I guess avoiding certain death in the US is a good thing. NOW, meanwhile, release him from that Belmarsh hole on his OWN RECOGNIZANCE. Let him get proper medical care. This entire situation is disgusting and an egregious violation of his human rights.
I AGREE
He isn't avoiding certain death! They have already tried to kill him, prison murders can be arranged for pennies!
Free him Now
I think he should not be tried. Free Assange.
Free Assange ❤
Personally, I think Assange has been punished enough.
Should he ever have been punished?
He should not have been punished AT ALL!!!! 😢
He stepped into that hornets nest voluntarily, if he wanted an easy life he should have chosen a different vocation.
Says the heartless soulless ignoramus!
@@ruprect8858all vocations are sensitive. Teachers get charged for sex abuse because a child played and failed. Doctors and nurses charged with negligent homicide. Police charged with abuse in arrest. Etc etc etc even McDonald's workers get held up..... stay home hide out one your eyes do nothing exist... don't live
Free Julian Assange.
Just FREE thos man.
During a time of FREE SPEECH this imprisonment is illegal and he deserves freedom AND REPARATIONS.
Free Assange
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
Frederick Douglas.
Free Assange! Wake up!
A free press requires us to demand: Free Julian Assange NOW! HEY JOE, LET HIM GO!!!
The president has absolutely no say in any of this.
@@skankhunt3624the president can pardon him
Please don't remind Assange that he could depend on genocide Joe. Just leave it
@@Nottooshabbi that comes after a trial.
Nope. The president has pardon people in the past who haven't even been charged.
FREE ASSANGE FREE.ASSANGE!!!!
📣📢📣📢📣📢FREE ASSANGE!!!! 📢📣📢📣📢📣
They have already completely destroyed this poor man’s life and yet that is not good enough. Those people responsible for this injustice (the mainstream media,corrupt politicians) should be the ones on trial. Is it not any wonder that this world has become so screwed up? Is this the kind of world truthful people want to live in?
It's so insane that we're forced to consider anything about this injustice to humanity as "good news...".
What an injustice. When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.
After 5 years!! For truth free speech!!!
This should have never happened in the 1st place. I hope he can go home to his family
We live in a world turned upside down, where those who bravely reveal the injustices around us face the ultimate price. In our quest for truth and justice, it is the truth-tellers who are often silenced. This harsh reality pierces our hearts, leaving us to wonder how long we must endure a world where exposing the truth comes at such a devastating cost. We yearn for a time when courage and integrity are celebrated, not condemned, and where the light of truth can shine without fear of retribution.
How can they say he should be bound by US laws without the benefit of the constitutional protections that apply to everyone in the US?
Here's the honost Answer. Whistleblowers have protected rights and so do Reporters. But Publishing classified documents on the web is not protected. That's the criminal thing. If he would have TALKED or WRITTEN about it he'd be free and clear. That's the Judicial reasoning here in the US.He can argue his point but he's not being charged with "Reporting or Speaking" That's why Free speech is not a defense, technically.
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The charge is listed on the official US Government website unter Title 18 §§ 793 "Obtaining and disclosing National Defense Information". You can go to the website the full indictment is listed there.
@@tinydancer_there are many "whistleblowers" but it's called conspiracy theories and if Assanges knowledge was free like he should be, well then those theories would not be theories. They are still afraid of him. We ALL WILL SOON KNOW WITHOUT ANY DOUBTS ,THAT THE WESTERN WORLD IS RUN BY COVENS OF WITCHES AND WARLOCKS. WHO BOW DOWN TO SATAN THE DEVIL.
@@tinydancer_ you spam so many comments like a shill or A.I.
Let him go!
Heros of truth ought to be free.
La faute se manque, la Vérité porte un voile" Voltaire.
Truth is the sanity of the world.
Free julian Assange
Protect him from all evil
Here's the honost Answer. Whistleblowers have protected rights and so do Reporters. But Publishing classified documents on the web is not protected. That's the criminal thing. If he would have TALKED or WRITTEN about it he'd be free and clear. That's the Judicial reasoning here in the US.He can argue his point but he's not being charged with "Reporting or Speaking" That's why Free speech is not a defense, technically.
Das ist so unfassbar menschenunwürdig und hat nichts mehr mit "wahrem Recht" zu tun.
Lasst diesen armen, gebrochenen Mann endlich frei!
Gebt den Kindern endlich ihren Vater!!!!💟⚖FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! ✊💟
Prayers for Julian Assange 🙏 africa stands with the just
Thankyou in the comments, as an Australian i appreciate not all Americans support your government's actions. I realise not everyone in the comments are Americans however many of you are.
Oi oi oi👍
As an American, I don’t know ANYONE that doesn’t want him to be FREE , Our country, our judicial system is a disgrace.
❤❤❤❤ Free Assange!❤❤❤❤
He has the support and of the American people! FREE JULIAN ASSANGE !!!!
Um nope, don't try to speak for " americans" . He's a traitor
@@user-ph9eq2dw3r sorry! Let me reframe! Most Americans support the First Amendment and therefore most Americans support Julian ASSANGE!
As an Aussie it's great to know there are Americans who support us and or others around the world.
Julian is no hero. He worked with Russia to get Chump elected by leaking classified documents and emails on Hillary Clinton. Stirred the cauldron so voters went with the traitor to our country, Chump.
Only an imbecile thinks that an Australian journalist who is not in America can be a traitor to the USA. You really have to be staggeringly stupid to believe that .
Brits are doing death penalty by lawfare. Not that different from their fellow vassals did to Gonzalo Lira in Ukraine.
Gonzalo Lira? Another misogynistic, pro-Russian goon. No loss.
In the US he would get the Epstein treatment as well.
WTF, he is still not being released? !!!
Kindly Free Julian Assange 🙏 💜
🙏💗🙏💗🙏
So long as Assange is not in the US, he's not the US's problem. I wonder if the US is reimbursing the UK for the cost of keeping Assange.
They aren't, just as they aren't reimbursing us for protecting the Zionist entity at their behest.
Perhaps if the U stands for Ukraine.
You forget that the UK is in a precarious position in that they are Australia’s head of state too. He is a festering thorn in everyone’s claw that refuses to go away.
Found the 3 letter agency troll!
The Special Relationship Regime is stalling for time.
Biden should let this go. There is too much pain everywhere with our hands in it. No need to imprison this man here
They are mad that he exposed the truth. They continually persecute truth, they persecuted Jesus.
Free Julian Assange !!!
Freedom of Speech 🎤
The British are playing cat and mouse with this man's life. It's cruel and petty. What exactly is his "crime"?
Conspiracy is his crime, he conspired with Bradley Manning to hack government computers.
The truth don't lie, as liars don't tell the truth. freedom promised by those who don't understand it can not grant it
🎯🎯🎯
FREE ASSANGE!
Good grief, the death penalty is not the only option of America, TORTURE exists. Assange must be able to return to his own country, and not continue to be locked on a prison on UK
For exposing the truth...
They must have been some pretty bad war crimes for them to be acting with such a guilty conscience and desperate to kll him 👀
... they'll say it was an accident or natural causes.
Who killed Jeffrey Epstein? 🤔🤨
We show war crimes all the time in Israel. I dont see the same response here.
what happened to the test of Justice years ago when he was 1st imprisoned? No right to a expediated trial? Wait til he is near death?
Thank God🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Free Julian Assange now!!!
FREEDOM FOR ASANGE !!!
Hallelujah! There is a God! 🙏. Best wishes to Julian and family. JUSTICE AND FREEDOM TO YOU! 💕
US : you can trust us, no death penalty. HUH WHAT CIA
at this point, it is safe to say Australian government is completely USELESS and COWARD
Free him
I am so happy! Thank you! ❤
Julian Assange needs to be immediately granted his freedom so he can live the remainder of his life in peace.
No one knows Assange well enough to say ‘His only crime…’ and they don’t want to know.
About time
Mr assange should be released it should be usa in the doc if he is to be extrodited it should be to Australia this man isnt well and should be with his family
Good for you Assange. Keep fighting. Freedom of speech will win out.
What they have done to Julian is wrong. Free J A now
Pompeo directly responsible! Trump should free him!
Trump's the one who wanted him kidnapped or worse. The CIA takes orders from one guy and he was the one in office at the time. He's lucky Pompeo talked him out of it. BTW Trumps being charged with the same crime in Florida.
Drop the charges. Freedom for Julian and his family to come home to Australia 🇦🇺 🙏
He should be released immediately and be awarded damages!
They are suppose to full pardon Julianne Assange, as well as Edward Snowden, they said so, and if it's not done by November, then when RFK jr is president of the Kennedy Administration for 24 and 28, #47, he is going to do it on day one, and put a statue of Edward Snowden in front of CIA headquarters, as a civics lesson 😷☕🇺🇲
Jill Stein and Cornel West have also promised on day one.
@@tombradburn3935 they do not have the numbers, the popularity, the reach, nor the policies and talking points that Bobby does, neither the first hand experience, nor the grassroots army in every single state, he has literally earned this over forty plus years time, through actions, and was not his intent nor his agenda to do so, but covid was just too much and went to far, and as far as debates Bobby has 340 electoral points, on the ballots, Trump and Biden have zero, because they will not be "confirmed", by the DNC nor the RNC until September
Free Julian Assange!
He should never have been imprisoned, shame on Britain, absolutely disgrace .
Im sorry but why does chip gibbons look like someone in disguise
@Nottooshabbi.. Is Chip the lady with the mustache??
I just can't look at her. Just messes up the mind.
@@dcarr-kr7hk it a man
Junior high mentalities. Grow up.
That's a step in the right direction
Thank God they have given Mr. Assange the opportunity to appeal. I hope he can be a free Journalist again.
Let him out. It's disgusting how he is being treated
So he embarrassed the USA. Get over it. He’s done the time .
Please remove Assange from that prison. Place him under guard in a more humane atmosphere where he can physically heal and breathe clean air. At least allow him healing ar this time.