In response to the denial of the extradition of Julian Assange, declared by Westminster magistrate Vanessa Baraitser, due to the risk of suicide of the WikiLeaks founder, the US legal team will request an extension of his extradition appeal, due to a “mistake in their assessment ”.
The appeal will be presented at a hearing on August 11, by the lawyers of the British Public Prosecutor’s Office, acting on behalf of the United States. On Wednesday of the following week, the lawyers will argue against the judicial decision of July 7, which limited the right of appeal to three of the five legal points originally raised.
In the London courthouse, US representatives will challenge the decision that stopped the extradition in January. They are also going to question the legitimacy of the testimony of Professor Michael Kopelman, a renowned expert in psychiatry, who examined Assange in the maximum security prison in Belmarsh, where he has been imprisoned since April 2019.
The objective of the United States is to try the programmer for 18 charges of espionage and computer intrusion, the sentence adds a penalty of 175 years in prison, in the case of carrying out a trial in the American continent.
Vanessa Baraitser concluded in her verdict that “it would be oppressive to extradite” the Australian because of his fragile “mental health”, including the “substantial risk” of taking his own life.
On the other hand, the United States said that it offers guarantees on the prison regime that Assange would enter, in the event of the extradition. However, Stella Morris, Assange’s wife and mother of their two children, rejected the “package of guarantees ”because she believes that her husband is going to be in prison for the rest of his life.
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