Judgment expected on Assange’s appeal. According to his supporters, he faces up to 175 years in prison.
Washington accuses him of stealing and publishing secret material from US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with whistleblower Chelsea Manning. If the application is rejected, the 52-year-old will face immediate extradition, according to his wife, Stella Assange. Assange has been in London's Belmarsh maximum security prison for almost five years. Before his arrest in April 2019, he had evaded law enforcement authorities for several years in the Ecuadorian embassy.