Assange loses extradition appeal
EXCLUSIVE: Julian Assange loses his appeal against extradition to the US on espionage charges* WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 51, has lost his appeal against US extradition
By CHRIS POLLARD and REBECCA CAMBER
PUBLISHED: 12:07 EDT, 8 June 2023 | UPDATED: 15:07 EDT, 8 June 2023
Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to the US on espionage charges. The judgment was handed down privately on Monday at the High Court.
WikiLeaks founder Assange, 51, launched the appeal last June after then-Home Secretary Priti Patel signed an order authorizing his removal.
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If there are no further legal challenges, his extradition could take place in the next few weeks.
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In 2019 he was charged by US authorities over almost 500,000 documents leaked in 2010 and 2011 about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
If convicted in the US, Mr Assange faces a possible penalty of up to 175 years in jail, his lawyers have said.
However the US government has said the sentence was more likely to be between four and six years.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12174521/Julian-Assange-loses-appeal-against-extradition-espionage-charges.html
Just missed the 12-hour LBN cutoff.
The article lists a few other avenues of appeals and delays, but things are happening. — Qutz
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I'm so giddy tonight!
We said he'd be indicted and he was. Twice now and it's not over yet. Damn, all this being correct has me loopy tonight!
The naysayers are regrouping... they'll be back with some other lame BS shortly, I'm sure. 
Enjoy this beautiful moment! 
in History with all of you Kindred Spirits! 
I've been LOL at the Excuses!
The fact that so many otherwise decent people can be so easily moulded into groupthink that is actually counter to their professed values should not seem so alarming after watching Trump in action, but the predictable pile on every time Assange is mentioned here is reminiscent of "the 2 minute hate" in 1984.
He's Goldstein, doesn't feed his cat, doesn't wipe his ass. 
Hey, and what's more Orwellian than a mob of angry citizens persecuting a man who dared to hold up a candle to illegal actions taken in their own names based on deliberately leaked info from a serving soldier?
Mob mentality. Uninformed, loud and whipped up by disinformation and character attacks. There isn't much difference between mindlessly chanting "lock her up" and "lock him up", now, is there? Except that he's already been locked up for years. Presumably he needs to suffer even more to satisfy them. 
If extradited, he's unlikely to see the light of day ever again and ongoing celebration of that fact here is profoundly disappointing, to say the least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate
The fact that an Australian citizen living outside the US has been subject to unprecedented legal retribution and prolonged incarceration is pretty rich considering the American reaction when one of their own was briefly thrown into jail in Moscow a few weeks ago. Albanese needs to get louder about this. Enough really is enough.
Former Reuters journalist Dean Yates was in charge of the bureau in Baghdad when his Iraqi colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh were killed. A WikiLeaks video called Collateral Murder later revealed details of their death, filmed from a US military Apache helicopter as it blasted to pieces Namir, 22, and Saeed, 40, and nine other men, while seriously wounding two children.
'Cold-blooded murder’
Collateral Murder is distressing viewing. The carnage wrought by the 30mm cannon fire from the Apache helicopter is devastating. The video shows the gunner tracking Namir as he stumbles and tries to hide behind garbage before his body explodes as the rounds strike home.
The words of the crew are sickening.
There is this, after Namir and others are blown apart:
“Look at those dead bastards.”
“Nice.”
And this:
“Good shoot’n.”
“Thank you.”
Saeed survives the first shots. The chopper circles, Saeed in its sights, as he crawls, badly injured and desperate to live.
“Come on buddy … all you got to do is pick up a weapon,” the gunner says, eager to finish Saeed off.
Of the US indictment against Assange, Yates says: “The US knows how embarrassing Collateral Murder is, how shameful it is to the military – they know that there’s potential war crimes on that tape, especially when it comes to the shooting up of the van …They know that the banter between the pilots echoes the sort of language that kids would use on video games.”
Namir Noor-Eldeen was 22 when he was killed in Baghdad on 12 July 2007.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how-the-us-military-covered-up-gunning-down-two-journalists-in-iraq
