WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday filed an software to attraction to Britain’s Supreme Courtroom towards a decrease court docket’s ruling this month that he might be extradited to the US.
U.S. authorities accuse Australian-born Assange, 50, of 18 counts regarding WikiLeaks’ launch of huge troves of confidential U.S. navy information and diplomatic cables which they mentioned had put lives in peril.
On Dec. 10, Assange moved a step nearer to dealing with felony expenses in the US after Washington received an attraction over his extradition in London’s Excessive Courtroom.
The court docket mentioned it was glad with a bundle of assurances given by the U.S. in regards to the circumstances of Assange’s detention, together with a pledge to not maintain him in a so-called “ADX” most safety jail in Colorado and that he could possibly be transferred to Australia to serve his sentence if convicted.
The Supreme Courtroom is the UK’s remaining court docket of attraction.
Assange’s fiancée, Stella Moris, mentioned the Excessive Courtroom’s ruling raised three factors of legislation of basic public significance that have an effect on the procedural and human rights safeguards of a variety of different sorts of instances.
“Underneath English legislation, to ensure that the applying to have an opportunity to be thought of by the Supreme Courtroom, first the identical Excessive Courtroom judges who ordered Julian Assange’s extradition should certify that at the least one of many Supreme Courtroom attraction grounds is a degree of legislation of basic public significance,” she mentioned in an announcement.
She mentioned the applying for depart to attraction is at the moment into consideration by the Excessive Courtroom judges. A call will not be anticipated earlier than the third week of January.
(Reuters)