{"id":426725,"date":"2021-12-10T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=289114d398de2ec09529e6d722c9f532"},"modified":"2021-12-10T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T11:23:53","slug":"rsf-condemns-the-uk-high-courts-decision-allowing-for-julian-assanges-extradition-to-the-us-and-calls-for-his-immediate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/10\/rsf-condemns-the-uk-high-courts-decision-allowing-for-julian-assanges-extradition-to-the-us-and-calls-for-his-immediate-release\/","title":{"rendered":"RSF condemns the UK High Court\u2019s decision allowing for Julian Assange\u2019s extradition to the US, and calls for his immediate release"},"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\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the decision of the UK High Court ruling that Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States, where he faces possible life imprisonment for publishing information in the public interest. RSF calls yet again for Assange\u2019s immediate release, and for the US government to drop its more than decade-long case against him once and for all, in line with its stated commitment to protecting media freedom.<\/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>On 10 December, the UK High Court issued a ruling in favour of <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/uk-high-court-set-hear-us-appeal-assange-extradition-case\">the US government\u2019s appeal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/h&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\"><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/rsf-condemns-uk-high-courts-decision-allowing-julian-assanges-extradition-us-and-calls-his-immediate\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the decision of the UK High Court ruling that Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States, where he faces possible life imprisonment for publishing information in the public int&#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\/426725"}],"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=426725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427110,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426725\/revisions\/427110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}