“I’m sure that if the country that requested extradition were not the United States, but any other country in the international community that is trying to prosecute a journalist for publishing reliable information, then it’s absolutely certain that the issue of extradition would not even be considered in court” - Radio Sputnik quotes Garcon's words.
According to him, the extradition of Julian Assange has a clear political focus.
Assange, who was accused of sexual harassment and rape in Sweden in 2010, has been hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012. On the morning of April 11, 2019, he was detained at the request of the United States.
A court in London found him guilty of violating the conditions of bail and sentenced to 11 months in prison.
At the end of May 2019, U.S. authorities said they had charged Assange with 17 episodes of violation of the law on espionage and the disclosure of classified information.
On April 27, it became known that the hearing on the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was postponed until November due to the situation with coronavirus.