WikiLeaks founder Assange extradited to US | USA TODAY
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be extradited to United States where he faces 18 criminal charges for leaking classified documents.
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Britain’s interior minister on Friday approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges, the latest twist in the WikiLeaks founder’s long-running legal saga over leaked documents he published. But the decision does not completely end Assange’s decade-long fight to avoid facing a U.S. trial in a case that could have implications for First Amendment protections.
WikiLeaks said Assange will Patel’s decision with Britain’s High Court. “UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange,” Home Secretary Priti Patel’s office said in a statement.
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For all those Muppets out there who were saying that Trump would pardon him when he was pres,so much for that even though he did win the election for him with the release of the Hilary emails just b4 the election.Trump didn’t even have the spine to issue him a pardon out of the hundreds he did give.