UK Refuses to Extradite Assange to the US, For Now
(World News UK)

“I find that Mr. Assange`s risk of committing suicide, if an extradition order were to be made, to be substantial,” said UK Judge Vanessa Baraitser in her 4 January-delivered into the US extradition case against Australian journalist Julian Assange. The judicial officer went on to refuse the US request to extradite the Wikileaks founder, basing her decision in part on criteria established in the 2012 case , which saw a British citizen unsuccessfully appeal a decision to extradite her to America. Washington has been seeking to extradite Assange from the UK since April 2019. This is in relation to an initial charge of computer hacking, which was soon ramped up to an indictment that also...