Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoJulian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extraditionwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down110
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minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·9 months agoAs an Australian I thinks the guy sucks, but no one deserves the US legal system. So for humane grounds id rather see him come home.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoI understand that the US offered to let Assange serve his prison time in Australia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/julian-assange-extradition-appeal/2021/07/07/41bc3914-df2e-11eb-a27f-8b294930e95b_story.html According to the High Court, the United States consented to transferring Assange to his native country of Australia to serve any prison sentence.
As an Australian I thinks the guy sucks, but no one deserves the US legal system. So for humane grounds id rather see him come home.
I understand that the US offered to let Assange serve his prison time in Australia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/julian-assange-extradition-appeal/2021/07/07/41bc3914-df2e-11eb-a27f-8b294930e95b_story.html