[HIGHLIGHTS] Julian Assange: the United Kingdom requests new guarantees from the United States before possible extradition

British justice gave the U.S. three weeks to guarantee in particular that the founder of WikiLeaks will not be sentenced to the death penalty.

It was the last chance counter-offensive, at least on British soil. In the United States, Julian Assange faces up to 175 years in prison. 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 an American combat helicopter in Iraq in 2007.