A second woman, who accused Assange of sexual assault, said she was willing to appear as a witness.Īssange’s arrest came just 24 hours after Wikileaks had accused Ecuador of an ‘extensive spying operation’, adding that it assumed intelligence had been handed over to the Trump administration. The alleged victim’s lawyer declared she would ‘do all we can’ to get the case reopened. Meanwhile Swedish prosecutors said they would consider restarting the rape investigation which caused Assange to first seek refuge in the embassy. Experts say that process could take up to two years. This would see him serve six months before a fight over his extradition to the US begins. The former hacker now faces a maximum sentence of one year in a British jail, likely to be Wandsworth prison in south London. His lawyer stated Thursday he vows to fight extradition to the U.S. As the visibly frail and aging hacker was marched to a waiting police car, Assange was holding the Vidal book (pictured), published four years before the noted intellectual’s death in 2012Īssange pleaded innocent to one charge that he failed to surrender to a Sweden extradition order.
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