British justice began examining this Tuesday Julian Assange’s request to obtain a last appeal in the United Kingdom against his extradition to the United States, which wants to try him for a massive leak of documents. The founder of WikiLeaks, suffering according to his lawyer, was absent.
“He’s not feeling well today, he’s not present“, declared at the opening of the hearing at the High Court of London Edward Fitzgerald, counsel for Julian Assange. As the hearing scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday approached, his supporters had warned of the risks weighing on the health and even the life of the 52-year-old Australian, detained for almost five years in the United Kingdom, in a case erected as a symbol of the threats weighing on freedom of the press. British justice is examining the refusal to authorize Julian Assange to appeal his extradition to the United States, accepted in June 2022 by the British government.