American prosecutors are seeking to put Assange on trial on espionage charges regarding WikiLeaks’s release of classified documents on the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The court, in particular, ruled that:
Assange’s wife has, meanwhile, called on the US to drop the charges against her husband and close the case rather than provide the guarantees that the court asked for.
Th espionage charges against him revolve around Assange publishing thousands of classified documents concerning Washington’s alleged military crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. They were provided by then-US Army private and whistleblower Chelsea (born Bradley) Manning.
If convicted, the WikiLeaks founder could face 175 years in prison. In December 2022, he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to fight his extradition.
WikiLeaks was founded by Assange on October 4, 2006, but rose to prominence in 2010 when it began publishing large-scale leaks of classified government information.
