Stories Related to Us Sets Out Case For Extradition Of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange

The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 5:51am

LONDON — The U.S. government began outlining its extradition case against Julian Assange in a London court on Monday, arguing that the WikiLeaks founder is not a free-speech champion but an “ordinary” criminal who put many lives at risk with his secret-spilling. U.S. authorities want to try Assange on espionage charges that carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison over the 2010 publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military documents and diplomatic cables.

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