Julian Assange has always polarised opinion. Now, for some, his plight has evoked a sense of pity.
Julian Assange has always polarised opinion. Now, his long-running saga to avoid extradition to the US has triggered a renewed sense of pity over his plight.
Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, speaks beside a poster of her husband at London’s Royal Courts of Justice in February.Then, this week, Assange’s bid to avoid being taken to America suffered a setback when lawyers for the US provided the assurances about his treatment – including that he will not face the death penalty – demanded by the London court where the Australian is challenging his extradition.
Come June, Assange will have spent 12 years either in jail or holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He fought extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges – the investigation was dropped in 2019 – and then extradition to the US for publishing military and diplomatic cables.
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