Day X: The Extradition Countdown Begins for Julian Assange
Expect things to move quickly. And none of it will be good.
The UK’s High Court will hold a two-day hearing on February 20 and 21 on the US request to extradite Wikileaks cofounder Julian Assange to the notorious Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) to face 17 felony counts of espionage and one count of misuse of a computer related to Wikileaks’ release of the Iraq War Logsand so-called Collateral Murder Video provided by Chelsea Manning. The conventional wisdom is that Julian’s appeal will be denied and that he will be swiftly turned over to the FBI, put on a government jet, and rendered to the US. If convicted, Julian faces up to 175 years in prison, almost all of it in a maximum-security penitentiary and/or a restrictive Communications Management Unit, which would literally cut him off from the outside world.
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