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arrow-up187arrow-down1external-linkJulian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extraditionwww.bbc.comArthur Besse to NewsEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square54fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareDeceptichumlinkfedilink0•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•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