{"id":1509426,"date":"2024-02-20T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/feb\/20\/julian-assange-risks-flagrant-denial-of-justice-if-tried-in-us-london-court-told"},"modified":"2024-02-20T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:22:53","slug":"julian-assange-risks-flagrant-denial-of-justice-if-tried-in-us-london-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/20\/julian-assange-risks-flagrant-denial-of-justice-if-tried-in-us-london-court-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange risks \u2018flagrant denial of justice\u2019 if tried in US, London court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers seek permission at high court to appeal against WikiLeaks founder\u2019s extradition<\/p><p>Julian Assange faces the risk of a \u201cflagrant denial of justice\u201d if tried in the US, his lawyers have told a permission to appeal hearing in London, which could result in the WikiLeaks founder being extradited within days if unsuccessful.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/julian-assange+wikileaks\">Assange<\/a>, who published thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, could be jailed for up to 175 years \u2013 \u201ca grossly disproportionate punishment\u201d \u2013 if convicted in the US, the high court heard on Tuesday.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/feb\/20\/julian-assange-risks-flagrant-denial-of-justice-if-tried-in-us-london-court-told\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/feb\/20\/julian-assange-risks-flagrant-denial-of-justice-if-tried-in-us-london-court-told\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers seek permission at high court to appeal against WikiLeaks founder\u2019s extraditionJulian Assange faces the risk of a \u201cflagrant denial of justice\u201d if tried in the US, his lawyers have told a permission to appeal hearing in London, which could resul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2944,1312,6,117,640,94,1314,1315,205,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509427,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509426\/revisions\/1509427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}