Wednesday, 12 June 2019 07:30
US formally requests Assange be extradited to face charges
By Sam Varghese
The US Department of Justice has made a formal request to the UK to extradite WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange to face charges of conspiring to break into US Government computers and violation of an espionage law after he serves a jail term in Britain.
An official from the UK Home Office said London had now received the full request for extradition of the Australian.
The Washington Post reported that the US prosecutors had sent the request last Thursday before a legal deadline expired.
Assange is set to face a hearing in London over the extradition on 14 June.
US formally requests Assange be extradited to face charges
By Sam Varghese
The US Department of Justice has made a formal request to the UK to extradite WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange to face charges of conspiring to break into US Government computers and violation of an espionage law after he serves a jail term in Britain.
An official from the UK Home Office said London had now received the full request for extradition of the Australian.
The Washington Post reported that the US prosecutors had sent the request last Thursday before a legal deadline expired.
Assange is set to face a hearing in London over the extradition on 14 June.
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