Snowden believes Britain has no right to extradite Assange to the US

2024-02-20T14:41:52.123Z

Highlights: Snowden believes Britain has no right to extradite Assange to the US. The High Court in London begins two days of hearings on February 20. The court will determine whether Assange will have the opportunity to continue to challenge the decision to extradites him to the United States, which was made in June 2022 by British Interior Minister Priti Patel. Now the founder of WikiLeaks is in the British Belmarsh maximum security prison. The US-UK extradition treaty's definition of a political crime expressly prohibits,” Snowden wrote in X.

Britain cannot extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States because the transfer agreement between London and Washington prohibits the transfer of political prisoners, former US intelligence official Edward Snowden said.