{"id":271452,"date":"2021-08-11T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=a85d61c6e8cf04a54f4dd51c2cb186d2"},"modified":"2021-08-11T16:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:13:02","slug":"uk-high-court-begins-consideration-of-assange-extradition-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/11\/uk-high-court-begins-consideration-of-assange-extradition-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: High Court begins consideration of Assange extradition appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">On 11 August, the UK High Court began consideration of the US government\u2019s appeal in the extradition case against Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. In the preliminary hearing, the presiding judges granted permission for the US to pursue its appeal on two additional grounds, widening the scope to five grounds in total. The full appellate hearing will take place from 27 to 28 October.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>In the 11th August preliminary hearing, the US government\u2019s counsel argued that Professor Michael Kopelman\u2019s testimony regarding Assange\u2019s mental health had been \u201cmisleading\u201d as his first written r<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/uk-high-court-begins-consideration-assange-extradition-appeal\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsOn 11 August, the UK High Court began consideration of the US government\u2019s appeal in the extradition case against Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. In the preliminary hearing, the presiding judges granted permission for the US to pursue its appea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271452"}],"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\/1349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271453,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271452\/revisions\/271453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}