Oppose the extradition
On 17 June Priti Patel approved Julian Assange’s extradition to the US on “espionage” charges. Assange is going to appeal the decision and legal struggles could go on for several years. As we have said many times over many years, Assange is no political hero. That is irrelevant to the extradition issue. Assange faces prosecution under the US’s Espionage Act, and spending the rest of his life in prison there, because of his work, as founder of WikiLeaks, helping to expose the machinations and crimes of powerful states including the US and UK. The drive to get Assange is part of the trend...