Rally of supporters of Julian Assange outside the Central Criminal Court in London. File photoKITO, June 18The team of lawyers of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will continue to seek the cancellation of his extradition to the United States in British courts and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), one of his lawyers, Carlos Poveda, told RIA Novosti. «Time is running out, but there are still battles in which we can win We remain optimistic in the fight and will continue to apply to all instances of English justice in parallel with the preparation of a lawsuit to the European Court of Human Rights,” said Poveda, an Ecuadorian lawyer who defends Assange’s interests. Earlier, Wikileaks reported that British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition project founder Julian Assange in the United States, where he faces 175 years in prison. The organization called the decision a «dark day» for freedom of speech and announced plans to appeal. Poveda explained that there are 14 days to appeal the decision in the High Court in London, after which it can still be challenged in the Supreme Court. If both instances confirm the extradition, the case will be referred to the European Court of Human Rights. a muzzle that does not accept any investigative journalism that objectively concerns news from powerful countries,» the lawyer emphasized. Julian Assange gained fame in 2006 in connection with his work on the WikiLeaks website, founded to publish classified documents. In 2010, the site released secret US military footage showing at least 18 civilians killed in the 2007 US helicopter attack in Baghdad. In 2010, the site also began publishing 250,000 US diplomatic documents. In addition, Assange hosted a program on the RT channel, the premiere of a television project called The World Tomorrow took place on April 17, 2012. Assange, accused in Sweden in 2010 of sexual harassment and rape, has been hiding since June 2012 at the embassy Ecuador in London for fear of extradition. On the morning of April 11, 2019, he was detained at the request of the United States. Extradition hearings began on May 2, 2019. Shortly thereafter, the US authorities announced that they had filed new charges against Assange for 17 counts of violating the law on espionage and disclosure of classified information. extradition of Assange as a complete disgrace
