Julian Assange's extradition from UK to US approved by home secretary
Priti Patel has approved the extradition of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the US, a decision the organisation immediately said it would appeal against in the high court.
The case passed to the home secretary last month after the supreme court ruled there were no legal questions over assurances given by US authorities over how Assange was likely to be treated.
While Patel has given a green light, WikiLeaks immediately released a statement to say it would appeal against the decision.
"Today is not the end of fight," it said. "It is only the beginning of a new legal battle. We will appeal through the legal system; the next appeal will be before the high court."
Also at NYT.
(Score: 4, Informative) by bradley13 on Monday June 20 2022, @02:41PM (3 children)
My analysis was simplistic, yes. However, see this lovely summary of applicable law [justice.gov], especially the section on jurisdiction on page 113. The relevant bits from the Patriot Act, which is likely the relevant law applicable here:
Summarized: As I understand this legalese, Assange would have to have (1) accessed a sensitive device in the US (he didn't, Manning did), and (2) stored data in the US (unlikely, but possible - where was his storage located).
AFAIK, the plan of the prosecution is to claim that he helped Manning to steal the documents, by providing technical advice. Unlikely, since Manning simply had to copy documents to which he had access - no hacking necessary.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 20 2022, @02:52PM (1 child)
The allegation is that he did exactly that. Manning did as well but the legal case against Assange is based on his own access to that secured device.
I posted the indictment here, it is alleging he accessed the system directly and without authorization. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 20 2022, @03:53PM
Yikes, the attempt to mod objective reality onto oblivion in this thread is egregious!
Please, mods and posters, actually look at the indictment I have posted before repeating/modding as fact things that have not been established as facts yet.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 20 2022, @05:49PM
Sending data from a US server to an external server doesn't count as "transporting" the data within the jurisdiction of the US?