It's quite sickening that the US should refuse to send an American woman back to the UK where she admittedly killed a UK citizen before fleeing - and yet demand that the nauseatingly subservient Brits should extradite Julian Assange to its fucked-up judicial system wherein he will be convicted of being a journalist and be subject to 175 years in prison.Denied tools for his defense, Assange remains resilient ahead of ‘epic’ extradition battle – Pilger
Julian Assange is in high spirits despite being deprived the materials he needs for his defense, veteran journalist John Pilger has reported, adding that Assange’s upcoming extradition hearing will be a battle for democracy.
Pilger tweeted out a status update after visiting the WikiLeaks co-founder in Belmarsh Prison.
“Denied the tools to prepare his defence against extradition to America, [Assange’s] resilience endures,” he wrote, stating that Assange’s upcoming court hearing will being an “epic fight… the fight of democracy.”
Assange will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday as he battles to stop his extradition to the United States.
In the US, Assange is charged with possession and dissemination of classified information. If found guilty, he could receive up to 175 years in prison. The journalist has been in Washington’s crosshairs for more than a decade, after WikiLeaks published a video showing the US military attacking journalists and civilians in Iraq in July 2007.
https://www.rt.com/news/471197-assan...-court-prison/
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