China News Service, September 7 According to foreign media reports, on the 7th local time, the hearing on the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange to the United States continued in London, England.
According to reports, the hearing will be held at the Central Criminal Court in London and will last three to four weeks.
Allegedly, the hearing was originally scheduled to be held in May, but was postponed due to the outbreak of the new crown epidemic.
Data map: Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.
According to reports, the extradition hearing is divided into two parts. The first part of the trial and debate has been held in February 2020, and the second part of the extradition hearing has been postponed.
Assange created the "WikiLeaks" website in 2006.
In 2010, the website exposed a large number of classified US government documents about the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In November of the same year, the Swedish Prosecutor's Office launched a criminal investigation against Assange on the grounds of suspected rape.
Assange was in the UK and refused to plead guilty after being arrested by the British police. During bail in 2012, he entered the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK and stayed for many years.
On April 11, 2019, the Ecuadorian government revoked Assange's asylum, and Assange was immediately arrested by the British police.
Currently, the United States is seeking to extradite Assange.
On February 24, 2020, a district court in London, England, opened a hearing on whether to agree to extradite Assange.
The US lawyer who requested the extradition charged Assange with more than a dozen crimes. Assange's lawyer believes that once Assange is convicted, he will face up to 175 years in prison.