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The UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid has signed off on the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, reports El Reg.
Javid's certifying of the US extradition request lodged this week is the first formal step in having Assange sent across the pond. The next phase is tomorrow, when Belmarsh Magistrates' Court will set a date for a full extradition hearing. After that, assuming a district judge (full-time professional magistrate) OKs the extradition, Javid himself will make the final decision on whether or not to send the one-time chief WikiLeaker to America, as UK.gov's website explains. It is almost certain Assange will file an appeal to the High Court after the district judge's ruling, and again (as the law allows) after the Home Secretary's final decision.
In the US, Assange will face charges of violating espionage law.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @12:01PM
You're defending the Trump administration because you're right-wing, and you attempt to excuse this fact in your heart by generally supporting the less right-wing and supposedly "progressive" of the two major capitalist parties. (The one also known as the graveyard of progressive movements.) But the fact remains that you are right-wing. You want the world to tend towards inequality, because you believe that will benefit you.
You are an opportunist like all capitalists who speak in progressive language, rarely take progressive action, and when push comes to shove believe that habeas corpus is perhaps not really always a right, that freedom of the press is nice but something we can't always have, and that concentration camps are ok, because brown people frighten you.