Julian Assange and his many legal troubles!

To some people, Julian Assange is the champion of truth, yet to others he is a cold hearted criminal. Assange has always been exceptional when it came down to computers, successfully hacking into NASA and Pentagon services only to be caught. Narrowly escaping jail time, in 2006 he started the website WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks was a wildly popular whistleblowing site that famously made headlines after the files of US Army Intelligence Agents were leaked. His organization was also able to leak and publish the Hillary Clinton email scandal in 2016.

As of 2012, the WikiLeaks founder was in a self imposed exile in a London Embassy until British officials were able to have him evicted. After nearly 7 years of being tucked away, Assange is out and there is a volley of charges against him, the UK is mad that he skipped bail, the USA wants to hunt him down for computer intrusion in 2012, and Sweden is harboring a woman who had accused Assange of sexual assault and rape. 

According to CNN’s article Assange still has one provisional extradition request, to the US. However, the UK is restricted from extraditing to outside the EU order part 2 of the Extradition Act of 2003. Meaning that once an extradition hearing has been set, it is only up to a judge to determine whether or not the US request satisfies the ‘dual criminality” requirement. 


-Nick Letts

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/28/uk/julian-assange-legal-troubles-gbr-intl/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/uk/julian-assange-arrested-gbr-intl/index.html

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