Edward Fitzgerald sought to compare Julian Assange’s case with that of Lauri Love’s before the judge who overturned Love’s extradition order to the United States.
Edward Fitzgerald QC, a lawyer for Julian Assange, ended the first day of the U.S. appeal with a thunderous response to the case put forward by a prosecutor for the United States.
The U.S. appeal hearing against the ruling not to extradite Julian Assange began in Courtroom 4 at the Royal Courts of Justice. Consortium News has video access to the court.
U.S. prosecutors have five times misled two British courts on key points about Julian Assange’s health as it attempts to overturn a ruling against extraditing him to the United States, report Cathy Vogan and Joe Lauria.
On the eve of the U.S. appeal, a live discussion from St. Pancras Church in London with Deepa Driver, Bjatmar Alexandersson, Andrew Feinstein, Lauri Love, Derek Summerfield, and Chris Williamson. Today 1:30pm EST, 6:30 pm BST.
In 2011 a lawyer for Julian Assange wrote a letter to the then Australian prime minister eerily predicting the predicament the WikiLeaks publisher finds himself in, as explained by Cathy Vogan.
The most senior judge in England and Wales, who let activist Lori Love evade extradition to the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, will join Lord Justice Timothy Holroyde at the U.S. appeal hearing against Julian Assange next week.