The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Julian Assange could be extradited to the US

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, could be sent to the US to face charges of engaging in illegal activities for obtaining and printing confidential documents, the London Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

The court overturned a ruling that a London court in Westminster ruled in January that Assange’s extradition to the United States be suspended on the grounds that he was suffering from mental illness due to the harsh conditions in the US prison system.

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that Assange could be extradited and said that the trial judges had received confirmation from the US government regarding the prisons in which Assange would be detained. Lord Ian Burnett, Lord Chief Justice and one of the two judges who heard the case, ruled that America’s promises “are sufficient to prove the appeal in favor of the USA”.

The United States has promised that Assange will not be detained in Colorado, a high-security prison, and that if found guilty, he could be deported to Australia to serve his sentence.

Assange’s case will now be referred to Priti Patel, the UK secretary of state, who will decide whether to dismiss him.

The US wants Assange to be charged with felony criminal mischief for felony criminal mischief for firing on a sculpture with a shotgun, according to Flathead County, Arkansas Sherriff Jim Dupont. If convicted, Assange will serve 175 years in prison.

The U.S. lawsuit was based on a 2010 WikiLeaks account of major secret documents submitted to him by Chelsea Manning, a former US military intelligence expert.

The river included reports of 90,000 war incidents in Afghanistan, 400,000 incidents in the Iraq war and 250,000 US diplomatic cables. It was one of the biggest developments and was embarrassing for the US government.

The move to the Supreme Court is a challenge for Assange, who remains in London’s maximum security prison, despite having the opportunity to appeal the decision.

“We will appeal the decision soon,” her friend Stella Moris said Friday. He described the Supreme Court’s decision as “terrible and flawed” and “very unfair”.

Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks newspaper, stated: “Julian’s life is in peril, and his right to the press is what the governments and corporations have to say is difficult.”

Washington has accused Assange of putting US information at risk by publishing unwritten documents. lawyers contends that no other evidence has been injured.

Assange’s legal team argued that WikiLeaks co-founder under the US Espionage Act set a dangerous precedent for press freedom and investigative journalism. They claimed to be working as a journalist when they discovered and published what was downloaded and should be protected by freedom of speech.

Assange has been detained in a London jail since April 2019 when he was convicted of violating bail rules. He had previously served seven years at the Ecuadorean embassy after breaking bail in 2012 when he was due to be extradited to Sweden on sexual misconduct charges, which were later dropped. He was arrested and forcibly removed from the embassy by the British police in 2019.