Julian Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks who has been confined in a London prison since 2019, will now have 14 days to challenge the Home Secretary's order before being extradited to the United States to face espionage charges.
Priti Patel, the home secretary for the United Kingdom, has given her approval for the extradition of Julian Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks, to the United States, where he is accused of espionage in connection with the publication of millions of secret government papers.
For more than a decade, the United States has been requesting Assange's extradition in order to prosecute him on 17 counts of espionage and one count of computer misuse related to his release of thousands of classified material and videos, some of which depict American soldiers killing innocent civilians during the Iraq War.
The U.K. Supreme Court overruled an earlier decision that barred Assange, an Australian citizen, from being extradited due to suicidal ideation, giving...