The decision on whether to approve the extradition now rests with British Home Secretary Priti Patel.
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Britain’s High Court overturned a lower court ruling earlier this year barring the extradition of Assange to the United States.
The 48-year-old, who is currently in jail in Britain, has to be rushed to hospital for treatment or he may die in detention, according to a letter sent to British Home Secretary Priti Patel and other media on Monday.
A Swedish prosecutor on Monday requested that WikkiLeaks founder Julian Assange be detained in absentia on suspicion of rape.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday told a London court his work had protected “many people”.
Christine Assange, the mother of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, appealed to British Authorities on Friday to be “patient, gentle and kind’’ to her son.
NAN reports that on Saturday, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg that there should be no situations of uncertainty in cybersecurity, or issues between Russia and the US
Assange equally said it lacked evidence
President Barack Obama last week expelled Russian diplomats and ordered new sanctions over the hacking that he says was an attempt to interfere in the US presidential elections
Assange, 44, a computer hacker who enraged the US by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables, has been holed up in the embassy since June 2012 to avoid a rape investigation in Sweden
The ruling ordered for Assange to be allowed to go free from the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been holed up since 2012