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April 27, 2020 The hearings on the extradition to the United States of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have been rescheduled at least until after November 2. British judge Vanessa Baraitser announced this.  

Debates were scheduled to begin on May 18. November 2 is the first feasible date for the start of the three week hearing, the judge said. The proceeding was completely suspended until May 4 so that Assange's legal team and U.S. representatives could agree on the new schedule.

One of the lawyers of the founder of Wikileaks, Edward Fitzgerald told the press that none of the defense team "for over a month" has been able to meet Assange in Belmarsh prison, where contacts with the outside are avoided to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

"There have always been many difficulties in having contact with Mr Assange but since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic the preparation of the case has gone from difficult to impossible," added the lawyer stating that if the date of the hearing had been confirmed May 18 would be like "fighting a David battle with Goliah with his hands tied behind his back".

Wanted in the United States, accused of conspiracy with former army analyst Chelsea Manning to steal and publish thousands of top secret military documents, Assange was arrested in April last year by British police in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. where he had been refugee since 2012.