Extradition of Assange: British justice requests new guarantees from the United States

2024-03-26T11:07:40.923Z

Highlights: British justice requests new guarantees from the United States. Judges gave the American authorities three weeks to guarantee that the Australian will benefit from the First Amendment of the American Constitution. Julian Assange will not be sentenced to the death penalty, the judges said. The U.S. authorities want to try the Australian for a massive leak of confidential documents, according to a summary of the judgment. The judges said they would grant the founder of Wikileaks a last appeal in the United Kingdom against his extradition, if they did not receive new guarantees.

The judges gave the American authorities three weeks to guarantee that the Australian will benefit from the First Amendment of the American Constitution which protects freedom of expression, and that he will not be sentenced to the death penalty.