Wikileaks | Extradition of Julian Assange: US assurances are full of loopholes
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Following a two-day hearing in February, two U.K. High Court judges requested that the U.S. government provide diplomatic assurances regarding the potential extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. On April 16th, the deadline for the submission of such assurances, the U.S. government appears to have issued a diplomatic note on the matter. Those assurances concerned whether “Mr Assange is permitted to rely on the First Amendment, that he is not prejudiced at trial (including sentence) by reason of his nationality, that he is afforded the same First Amendment protections as a United States citizen and that the death penalty is not imposed.”
Just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday, New York Times’ London correspondent Megan
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