The founder of WikiLeaks is questioned by the American justice system for having made public 700,000 documents on military and diplomatic activities and for having exposed military secrets between January and May 2010, in connection with Chelsea Manning.
Faced with 175 years of detention in the United States, the Australian journalist has just escaped the worst.
British justice refused his extradition on Monday, January 4, considering that his state of health did not allow it.
“We are relieved and that's good news!
Exclaimed his French lawyer Antoine Vey, who shared his joy over the phone from his Paris office with Julian Assange's wife in London.
The conditions of detention of the founder of WikiLeaks were denounced by the rapporteur of the United Nations Organization on torture, Niels Melzer.
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“We do not understand why, he has been held in solitary confinement for two years, in an infernal prison, surrounded by prisoners of common rights.
It was destroyed for having told the truth, namely denouncing the illegal acts of certain governments, including the American government ”explains his lawyer to the“ Parisian ”, who recalls that this trial is capital for the citizens' right to information.
