Assange to remain in jail pending extradition to US

[struggle4progress]

PA Media
Sat 14 Sep 2019 05.18 EDT
Last modified on Sat 14 Sep 2019 06.22 EDT

Julian Assange will stay in prison after the custody period on his current jail term ends because of his “history of absconding”.

As home secretary, Sajid Javid signed an order in June allowing Assange’s extradition to the US over hacking allegations. A 50-week jail term was imposed in the UK after he had jumped previous bail by going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

The WikiLeaks founder would have been released from HMP Belmarsh on 22 September, Westminster magistrates court heard on Friday, but he was told he would be kept in jail because of “substantial grounds” for believing he would abscond again ...

Another administrative hearing will take place on 11 October and a case management hearing on 21 October, the court heard. The final extradition hearing is expected in February ...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/14/julian-assange-to-remain-in-jail-pending-extradition-to-us

I don't much like St Julian but it's certainly curious that Donnie "I love Wikileaks" Orange-face has decided to try to lock him up

[lordsummerisle]

1. Assuming he's extradited to the US

what could he be charged with if he's not a US citizen?

[struggle4progress]

2. The article says hacking

[Blue_true]

4. We brought bin laden associates here and charged them.

They were not citizens. Honestly, if Assange's ass was just thrown into a super Max prison and forgotten about, I would not lose one second of sleep over it.

[lordsummerisle]

6. Isn't he accused of releasing the same classified documents

that the New York Times released?

[Blue_true]

9. I don't care. He is where he belongs. He was hand in glove in the effort to give us Trump. nt

[brush]

3. Leave tha fucker right there. The admin. he helped to win is...

the very one Wikileaks should be leaking info about like the complete Mueller report and now this latest, the transcript of the trump call to the Ukrainian president.

[Blue_true]

5. But Wikikeaks won't leak that stuff because Putin won't let them.

It is amazing that we hear nothing from them on all the money that Putin has stole from Russians, he is close to, if not the richest person in the world, from pure theft.

[brush]

7. Do they even exist anymore? Talk about an organization losing...

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its mission.

[Blue_true]

8. It likely was really nothing more than Assange and maybe a few Russian "helpers".

With Assange in the slammer, Putin likely has his helping hands laying low until he sees the next opportunity to create strife in the West.