WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed an appeal with the London High Court in his extradition case to the United States, where he is accused of espionage offences, it was revealed on Friday.
The activist, who will turn 51 next Sunday, remains in Belmarsh maximum security prison in London while his appeal against his extradition to the US is decided.
On June 18, the British government announced that the WikiLeaks founder had been extradited to the United States.
Several weeks earlier, on April 20, a British court judge had issued a surrender order to the US court for review by the UK government.
In the US, Assange risks a sentence of 175 years in prisonfor having published in 2010, on the WikiLeaks website, 250,000 diplomatic messages and nearly half a million confidential documents on US military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
ass has been detained for three years in Belmarsh High Security Prisonafter having spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had taken refuge in 2012, when he was out on bail.
At the time, he feared being extradited to the United States or Sweden, where he was under investigation for rapehowever closed.
In April 2019, the British police arrested him.
As the Australian’s future is being decided, his wife Stella and supporters staged a protest outside the British Home Office in central London, intensifying calls for his release.
Source: Observadora
