British justice decided, Wednesday, December 6, to keep the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, in detention pending examination of the appeal made by the United States against the refusal of his extradition.
Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there are "substantial grounds for believing that if Mr. Assange were released today, he would not go to court to face the appeal process."
British justice had ruled on Monday, rejecting the request for the extradition of the founder of WikiLeaks to the United States, which wants to try him for espionage after the publication of hundreds of thousands of confidential documents.
The judge explained that she refused his extradition saying she feared that Julian Assange would commit suicide.
A risk of 175 years in prison in the United States
As a reminder, the Australian risks in the United States 175 years in prison for having disseminated, from 2010, more than 700,000 classified documents on American military and diplomatic activities, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The United States accuses the founder of WikiLeaks of having endangered American service sources, an accusation that he disputes.
The US Department of Justice said on Monday "extremely disappointed" by the United Kingdom's refusal to extradite Julian Assange to the United States.
Mexico, meanwhile, offered political asylum to the founder of WikiLeaks.
"I will ask the Minister of Foreign Affairs to make the necessary arrangements to appeal to the British government for the release of Mr. Assange and for Mexico to offer him political asylum," said Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , at a press conference.
With AFP
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