٠٠:٠٢:٣٧Stella Assange, wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, claimed the case against her husband 'criminalises journalism', speaking following the latest court decision to postpone his extradition hearing on Tuesday.
"[They] ask for a political intervention from the US government, the British Court should just have thrown this case because it criminalises journalism and that is the takeaway there really," she claimed.
Earlier, London's High Court ruled to postpone Julian Assange's extradition hearing until May 20 pending 'assurances' from the US government that any extradition would not interfere with freedom of speech, that the case wouldn't involved any prejudice during a trial regarding Assange's Australian nationality and would not mean the death penalty in the case of conviction.
"The United States should not issue assurances, they should just drop the case, because this case as the Obama's administration rightly identified is an attack on all of you, all of the press, all freedom of conscience and on the public's right to know at that crucial moment that we find ourselves in with the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, that the press needs to be free to publish the truth about what happens in conflicts and war. And those who are involved in driving war should not be given the power to be able to silence and imprison the journalists who are engaged in exposing war crimes," she said.
Director of Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders Rebecca Vincent said that 'there is a sliver of hope' and 'there could still be some form of justice possible in UK courts.'
"What happens to Julian Assange has implications not just for him, but for journalists from media organisations everywhere. And we call again whether this progresses further in the UK courts beyond this question of assurances, it remains in the power of the US government to bring this to a close now," she said.
Julian is currently in Belmarsh prison, where he has been held since being dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy and arrested in April 2019. The extradition was approved in 2022 by then-home secretary Priti Patel. He is wanted by US authorities on 18 charges, following the release of thousands of military and diplomatic documents relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Extradition case 'criminalises journalism' - Stella Assange on UK court decision to adjourn Wikileaks founder's hearing
Stella Assange, wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, claimed the case against her husband 'criminalises journalism', speaking following the latest court decision to postpone his extradition hearing on Tuesday.
"[They] ask for a political intervention from the US government, the British Court should just have thrown this case because it criminalises journalism and that is the takeaway there really," she claimed.
Earlier, London's High Court ruled to postpone Julian Assange's extradition hearing until May 20 pending 'assurances' from the US government that any extradition would not interfere with freedom of speech, that the case wouldn't involved any prejudice during a trial regarding Assange's Australian nationality and would not mean the death penalty in the case of conviction.
"The United States should not issue assurances, they should just drop the case, because this case as the Obama's administration rightly identified is an attack on all of you, all of the press, all freedom of conscience and on the public's right to know at that crucial moment that we find ourselves in with the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, that the press needs to be free to publish the truth about what happens in conflicts and war. And those who are involved in driving war should not be given the power to be able to silence and imprison the journalists who are engaged in exposing war crimes," she said.
Director of Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders Rebecca Vincent said that 'there is a sliver of hope' and 'there could still be some form of justice possible in UK courts.'
"What happens to Julian Assange has implications not just for him, but for journalists from media organisations everywhere. And we call again whether this progresses further in the UK courts beyond this question of assurances, it remains in the power of the US government to bring this to a close now," she said.
Julian is currently in Belmarsh prison, where he has been held since being dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy and arrested in April 2019. The extradition was approved in 2022 by then-home secretary Priti Patel. He is wanted by US authorities on 18 charges, following the release of thousands of military and diplomatic documents relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Stella Assange, wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, claimed the case against her husband 'criminalises journalism', speaking following the latest court decision to postpone his extradition hearing on Tuesday.
"[They] ask for a political intervention from the US government, the British Court should just have thrown this case because it criminalises journalism and that is the takeaway there really," she claimed.
Earlier, London's High Court ruled to postpone Julian Assange's extradition hearing until May 20 pending 'assurances' from the US government that any extradition would not interfere with freedom of speech, that the case wouldn't involved any prejudice during a trial regarding Assange's Australian nationality and would not mean the death penalty in the case of conviction.
"The United States should not issue assurances, they should just drop the case, because this case as the Obama's administration rightly identified is an attack on all of you, all of the press, all freedom of conscience and on the public's right to know at that crucial moment that we find ourselves in with the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, that the press needs to be free to publish the truth about what happens in conflicts and war. And those who are involved in driving war should not be given the power to be able to silence and imprison the journalists who are engaged in exposing war crimes," she said.
Director of Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders Rebecca Vincent said that 'there is a sliver of hope' and 'there could still be some form of justice possible in UK courts.'
"What happens to Julian Assange has implications not just for him, but for journalists from media organisations everywhere. And we call again whether this progresses further in the UK courts beyond this question of assurances, it remains in the power of the US government to bring this to a close now," she said.
Julian is currently in Belmarsh prison, where he has been held since being dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy and arrested in April 2019. The extradition was approved in 2022 by then-home secretary Priti Patel. He is wanted by US authorities on 18 charges, following the release of thousands of military and diplomatic documents relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.