Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's wife says his last-ditch legal challenge to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States is a matter of life and death.
Julian Assange is facing what is likely to be his last shot at freedom — and his wife does "not have hope" it will succeed. The Australian WikiLeaks founder will front the High Court in London on Tuesday in what could be the final bid to prevent his extradition to the United States. There, he faces 17 espionage charges after WikiLeaks published a haul of classified documents about US operations in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars more than a decade ago.
"There are examples where people have been brought from the courthouse… straight to the airport to be flown out on a rendition plane… so we prepare for the worst case scenario," she said. Stella Assange says it’s now a matter of life and death for her husband. "Julian will be put in a hole if he is extradited, there is no doubt about that," she said.
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