Julian Hill says the US government must answer a “credible allegation” that its spy agency planned to kidnap or even kill Julian Assange while he evaded possible charges in Ecuador’s embassy in London.
Stella Moris likened a reported CIA plot to kidnap or kill the WikiLeaks founder to that of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Eight former US officials offered details about the potential plot to assassinate the WikiLeaks founder,journalists say.
The Australian WikiLeaks founder appeared dishevelled in court as a London judge widened the scope of a US appeal against a block on his extradition.
That assurance was disclosed as part of a British High Court agreement to hear the US appeal for the Wikileaks’ founder’s extradition.
Britain’s High Court has granted the US government permission to appeal a decision that the WikiLeaks founder cannot be sent to the US to face espionage charges.
In a video message released on Wednesday evening Australian time,11 federal MPs appealed to Washington to drop charges against the Australian citizen.
Supporters of the Wikileaks founder hope that new US President Joe Biden’s administration will drop the case.
A British judge ruled last month that while the case against the Australian was sound,his fragile mental health put him at “substantial risk” of committing suicide in a US prison.
WikiLeaks drew fury from the US government after publishing thousands of pages of once-secret reports generated by US military and intelligence agencies.
Julian Assange’s accuser has come under fire in Sweden after she went public for the first time with a tell-all book centred around her allegations of sexual abuse.