A UK authority may have just provided the perfect reason for dismissing the US extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Court hearing
At a 21 October court hearing, Assange’s lawyers made it clear to district judge Vanessa Baraitser that the US extradition request should be denied because of surveillance in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Significantly, that surveillance included the monitoring of privileged client-lawyer discussions.
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