The United Kingdom can now extradite the founder of the whistleblowing website to the United States, where he will be charged with espionage.
The UK Home Secretary gave the go-ahead for the order to be filed by the London court to extradite him to the US. The website that published hundreds of thousands of classified military documents in 2010 and 2011.
In the last decade, he's been in prison or the embassy in London. He is being held in a high security prison. In a statement posted on the internet this morning, WikiLeaks said it would be appealing the decision within fourteen days.
This is a bad day for press freedom in Britain. He did not do anything wrong. He isn't a criminal. He is a journalist and he is being punished for doing his job.
WikiLeaks was founded in 2006 as a whistleblowing website. In 2010 the website rose to prominence when an army intelligence analyst leaked hundreds of thousands of battlefield reports to the website. According to a 2010 article by NBC News, the now infamous "Collateral Murder" video was pulled from a military helicopter assault in Baghdad.
The U.S. government has been attempting to extradite Assange on espionage charges for a long time.
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