The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is one step closer to extradition to the United States who want to try him for espionage, after a formal decision by British justice on Wednesday.
Westminster Magistrates Court in London has formally issued an extradition order and it is now up to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to approve it, there seems to be no doubt.
Unless an appeal is requested by his lawyers, Julian Assange will be extradited within 28 days of the Minister's decision to order the extradition.
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"With penalties that are those usually reserved for terrorists, this proves that democratic states consider whistleblowers as such".
For Olivier Tesquet, journalist at Télérama and co-author of the book "In the head of Julian Assange", the news of the possible extradition of the founder of WikiLeaks is "a disastrous signal sent to the freedom of the press".
“There has always been a tension between the right to information and defense secrecy.
Now, we can clearly see that the scales are tilting in favor of governments,” he asserts, emphasizing the double standard between the media who have benefited from the information published by WikiLeaks, and Julian Assange against whom state anger is unleashed.
