Justices Jeremy Johnson and Victoria Sharp to Decide the Fate of Julian Assange in About Three Weeks
Will he be back home in Australia by year's end?
BACK in April we learned of "Biden considering Australian request to drop Julian Assange charges". Since then Assange has had a small victory here in the UK. It's a sign that journalism in the UK isn't as dead as, let's say, journalism in Russia or Belarus.
How long might it take for Assange to come back home to Australia and maybe resume journalism? That's assuming he does survive, does get released, and does in fact go back to running Wikileaks.
Yesterday's Daily Links included the names of the judges to deal with the Assange Appeal. To quote:
The judges in Julian Assange’s two-day appeal hearing on July 9-10 are the same who granted Assange a rare victory last month: his right to appeal the Home Office’s extradition order to the United States.
Justices Jeremy Johnson and Victoria Sharp granted Assange the right to appeal on only two of nine requested grounds, but they are significant: [...]
So the hearing is scheduled for 3 weeks from now. Let's hope they will do the right thing and take some steps towards releasing him to Australia. It's well overdue, over a decade overdue. █
