February 24, 2020
The eccentric founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is a figure that awakens as many phobias as philias. It is complex everything that involves the man who rose to fame in 2010, after revealing, through the online portal, hundreds of thousands of secret documents that shook the presidential offices on both sides of the Atlantic. Therefore, there is great expectation this Monday before the start of the trial on his extradition to the United States, where he is claimed to have conspired for allegedly intercepting computers from the Pentagon and then publishing more than 700,000 classified reports, including reports of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The current WikiLeaks director, Kristin Hrafnsson, warns that, with this process, not only the fate of his colleague is at stake, but “the future of journalism” and freedom of expression. “The United States has decided that it can persecute journalists wherever they reside in the world, which has universal jurisdiction, as now, that tries to extradite an Australian from the United Kingdom to the United States for a publication that happened outside the US borders, ”he said. “This is very serious and a serious concern for all journalists,” he added.
During Monday and Tuesday there will be two views and then the process will continue from May. The sentence is not expected until maybe November. In any case, the defense has already announced that if it loses it will appeal, so it could be a judicial battle that will last several years.
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