Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Sets To Bag 175 Years In A Concrete Coffin Cell
After years of legal battles, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s attempt to avoid extradition from Britain to the United States may soon end.
The activist and whistleblower, born in Australia, is being considered by London’s High Court to see if he may challenge his extradition in British courts.
The judges will likely render their ruling weeks or even months after the hearing, which was held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Judges Dame Victoria Sharpe and Mr. Justice Johnson postponed their decision yesterday to allow time for both sides to submit additional arguments.
Sometime next month, they are anticipated to decide whether the extradition’s validity was first approved by former Home Secretary Priti Patel in 2022 or if Assange is entitled to a second appeal.
The 52-year-old, Assange is wanted by US authorities to go on trial for allegedly breaking the Espionage Act in 2010 by plotting to obtain thousands of confidential papers about US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He could be sentenced to 175 years if found guilty of 18 charges.
Attorneys worry that the 52-year-old may be held alone in a ‘concrete coffin,’ a 12 by 7-foot room with a window that is 3 feet high but just 4 inches wide. The chamber aims to prevent the prisoner from seeing anything but the sky or the wall.
Meals are served through a gap in the door, and prisoners utilize their cells’ stainless steel washbasin, toilet, and shower—that is, they are not allowed to leave to prepare meals or clean themselves.
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They are permitted to exercise for an hour once every 24 hours in a small, individually fenced area frequently submerged, like an abandoned swimming pool, to keep them from disorienting within the prison complex.
If he fails, his attorneys may attempt to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
Assange is wanted in the United States to stand trial on 17 counts under the Espionage Act, one of which is a conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for disclosing numerous atrocities committed by American service members during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and for publishing hundreds of thousands of secret military documents.
His wife Stella, the mother of his two youngest children, Gabriel, age six, and Max, age five, stated that he might receive a “living death sentence” if found guilty, which entails serving up to 175 years in jail.
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“It would be disastrous,” she declared the day before. “Our kids are from Britain, go to school, and have stability here.” Julian’s communication with us would be drastically curtailed—possibly limited to a monthly 15-minute call. And this was all before he was even put on trial. He is not going to withstand being extradited to this form of torture.
At the moment, Britain serves simply as an American jailer, detaining Assange at Belmarsh, a maximum security facility in London. After spending seven years at the Ecuadorian Embassy—where he had been granted sanctuary by the country’s left-wing former president Rafael Correa—he was imprisoned there in 2019.
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