Julian Assange spent 2,487 consecutive days in the Ecuadorian Embassy. Now he's facing an extradition request from the US. Here's what next for the WikiLeaks founder.
In April 2010, WikiLeaks released a video provided to them by Manning showing a 2007 U.S. airstrike that killed more than 10 Iraqis and two journalists. Manning was later arrested and sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking the trove of military intelligence records. Her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in 2017 after seven years.
“I don’t think there’s been any case involving a developed democracy with sophisticated national security laws … where a journalist, or whatever you want to call Assange, has avoided a prosecution for hacking into or breaking into national security files,” he added. “It just seems really unlikely.” Wagner also pointed out that while some journalists have been highly skeptical of Assange’s journalistic defense, many big stories in the past have been legally questionable.
“The scope for argument is over whether what he’s accused of doing in the U.S. is the equivalent of a crime in the U.K. I’m not sure what the equivalent crime would be, but I’m sure there must be one. But will he try to fight it all the way? I’m sure he will.”
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