The completion of the trial by spokesman Julian Assange may still take some time.
In Britain the court has issued a formal decision on the leak Julian Assangen deportation to the United States. Minister of the Interior Priti Patelin the deportation must be approved, after which Assange’s lawyers can still appeal the decision.
U.S. officials want Assange to go to court for nearly twenty different charges against classified documents released by Wikileaks in 2010. There were about half a million documents leaked and they dealt with the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, among others. If Assange were found guilty of all charges, he could face up to 175 years in prison.
Assange has been in prison since 2019. He is still being held at Belmarsh Prison near London, although he has long since served a sentence for breaching his probation. Assange has not been released because, according to the law, there is a significant risk that he will flee and the lawsuit will not be completed.
Prior to joining Belmarsh, Assange had been hiding at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012.
In December the Court of Appeals ruled that there were no obstacles to extradition to the United States. This is how it spun the lower court decisionaccording to which Assange cannot be extradited because her mental health is shaky and there is a significant risk of suicide.