The British justice sends the extradition order for Julian Assange to the Government

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British justice has sent to the Secretary of the Interior the order for the extradition of

to the United States, where he could be sentenced to

for espionage and computer intrusion.

Judge Vanessa Baraitser was in charge of sending the order to Secretary of the Interior Priti Patel, who will submit it to one last consideration before making the final decision.

Assange's lawyers still have until May 18 to present their arguments to Patel, but the chances are increasingly slim for the 50-year-old Australian activist, who married lawyer Stella on March 23 in Belmarsh prison. Morris.

Morris has vowed to fight what she sees as "almost a death sentence" for her husband and father of her two children, born during her seven-year imprisonment in the Ecuadorian embassy in London (while trying to evade extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual abuse and rape presented by two women).

Stella Morris assures that Assange was

to be assassinated by the CIA.

However, this argument has not been taken into account by British justice in the three long years that the extradition process has lasted, consumed by the founder of WikiLeaks in the maximum security prison for having violated the conditions of freedom in his day. conditional.

Assange's fate was practically sealed since March 14, when the Supreme Court gave the green light for his surrender to the United States after dismissing his last appeal.

In the first instance, Judge Baraitser herself ruled against her extradition on January 21, 2021, alleging her fragile mental health and the

due to the harsh prison conditions in the US.

The US prosecutor's office managed to turn that argument around by claiming that Assange has no history of attempted suicide, that he will receive "clinical and psychological care" and that he will not be subjected to special isolation measures in a very high-security prison.

The accusations that motivated the request for extradition to the United States -after the Swedish prosecutor ended up shelving the case of rape and sexual abuse- are directly motivated by the dissemination on the WikiLeaks portal of "classified information" from the Department of State and Defense and of alleged war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dozens of protesters voiced their support for Assange outside the Westminster Courthouse on Wednesday.

Associations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have asked the US Administration to withdraw their charges and have reiterated that the "Assange case" is an affront against freedom of expression.

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