Assange will fight extradition from jail

[struggle4progress]

By William Booth and Isaac Stanley-Becker
April 12 at 11:38 AM

... Half of Britons had no opinion on Ecuador’s decision to get rid of him, according to a YouGov poll. More than a third supported the move, and only one in seven wanted him to stay ...

Because of the seriousness of the charge and the fact that Assange has already skipped bail once — when Sweden sought his extradition to answer allegations of sex crimes during a visit there — he will likely do battle from a prison cell.

His new life will not be as comfortable as the previous years in the Ecuadoran Embassy, where he was free to drink wine, skateboard down the halls and receive guests. Until his exasperated hosts cut off his Internet, Assange was all over social media. In British prisons, mobile phones are prohibited and Internet access highly restricted ...

“It will be some years before a final decision is reached — at least a year and probably longer,” said Amy Jeffress, a former Justice Department legal attache in London. “My over and under would be three years” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/julian-assange-expelled-from-his-embassy-perch-will-fight-extradition-from-jail/2019/04/12/d388584c-5cb2-11e9-98d4-844088d135f2_story.html?utm_term=.d1514c8a0838

[Historic NY]

1. We will fight them in the air, on the sea and in the jail.....

ah nope.

[Kittycow]

5. Okay, I had to laugh at that one..

[struggle4progress]

2. Everything you need to know

LAURA HAUTALA, PATRICK HOLLAND
APRIL 12, 2019 5:00 AM PDT

... In a tweet posted to the WikiLeaks Twitter account on Jan. 12, 2017, Assange offered to agree to extradition to the US if President Barack Obama released Manning, who was serving a 35-year sentence for leaking thousands of US Army classified documents.

Five days later, Obama commuted Manning's sentence. Shortly after, in a press conference streamed on Periscope on Jan. 19, Assange said he was willing to hold up his end of the bargain but said he'd like to know what charges the US planned to file against him or have a guarantee the the US would drop any charges before he did so. The US made no public statements regarding specific charges against Assange until Thursday ...

In September 2016, Assange reportedly reached out to Donald Trump Jr. in a series of private Twitter messages, according to the Atlantic. Trump Jr. responded sparingly, according to the report, but did act on some of the messages by telling other members of the campaign about their contents ...

The US charge against Assange has nothing to do with WikiLeaks publishing information that US intelligence officials say was stolen by Russian hackers. The crime he's charged with is specific to the documents stolen by Manning ...

https://www.cnet.com/news/julian-assange-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-man-behind-wikileaks/

[triron]

6. Why did the U.S. wait so long to begin this extradition process??

Seems like Mueller would have been damn interested in talking to him.

[struggle4progress]

7. The unsealed grand jury true bill is dated March 2018

So it's possible there was no indictment prior to that. And an extradition suit while he was in the embassy was pointless.

[Flaleftist]

3. Any chance this could just delay extradition into the next administration?

Let's see how that works out for him.

[Iliyah]

4. Well he has Putin, Snowden and

Greenwald, to name a few.

And Russia was the one to film his release from the Ecuador Embassy and have the "balls" to claim "Freedom of the Press" echoed by a few people.

[struggle4progress]

8. 'No special treatment' for Assange, says Australia PM

12 Apr 2019 11:18AM

SYDNEY: WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange will receive "no special treatment" from his home country following his dramatic arrest in Britain, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday (Apr 12) ...

Barely 24 hours into an official election campaign, Morrison said Assange would receive the same support as any other Australian in trouble overseas, and the extradition is a "matter for the United States".

"Well it's got nothing to do with us, it has got to do with the United States," he told national broadcaster the ABC.

"There's a judicial process, and that will be followed across a range of matters here and I would expect that to follow. He will receive the same consular support as any other Australians would in these circumstances" ...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/-no-special-treatment--for-assange--says-australia-pm-11437172