Antoine Vey, lawyer for Julian Assange: "The indictment is completely empty of material evidence"

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Demonstration against the extradition of Julian Assange in London, in February 2020. REUTERS / Peter Nicholls

By: Florent Guignard

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In London, Julian Assange's extradition trial to the United States resumes on Monday, after several months of an extended hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

American justice accuses him of having disseminated in 2010 more than 700,000 documents on Washington's military and diplomatic activities on its WikiLeaks platform and of having endangered sources of American services.

He faces up to 175 years in prison in the United States.

The explanations of his French lawyer Antoine Vey, of the firm Vey & Associés. 

  • WikiLeaks

  • United States

  • United Kingdom

  • International justice

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