Wikileaks founder Julian Assange begins a last appeal this Tuesday against his extradition to the United States. The 52-year-old Australian has been detained for almost five years in the United Kingdom.
He is being prosecuted for having published since 2010 more than 700,000 confidential documents on American military and diplomatic activities, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among them was a video showing civilians, including two Reuters journalists, killed by fire from a US helicopter gunship in Iraq in July 2007. The U.S. wants to try him for a massive leak of documents.