{"id":668259,"date":"2022-05-23T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=206629"},"modified":"2022-05-23T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:21:22","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-patel-over-assange-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/23\/pressure-mounts-on-patel-over-assange-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Mounts on Patel Over Assange Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point during the next nine days, British Home Secretary Priti Patel will decide whether or not to extradite imprisoned\u00a0WikiLeaks\u00a0publisher Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges for publishing accurate information revealing U.S. war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure is building from both sides on the home secretary.\u00a0 Press freedom and human rights organizations, a Nobel laureate, the Council of Europe\u2019s human rights commissioner, journalists and Assange supporters have appealed to Patel to let Assange go.<\/p>\n<p>While it would be deemed improper for outside influence to be brought on judges, it would not be fanciful to imagine that behind the scenes Patel is getting the message from the U.S. Department of Justice and possibly from U.S. and U.K. intelligence services about what is expected of her.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/pressure-mounts-on-patel-over-assange-decision-consortium-news\/\">Pressure Mounts on Patel Over Assange Decision<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/pressure-mounts-on-patel-over-assange-decision-consortium-news\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point during the next nine days, British Home Secretary Priti Patel will decide whether or not to extradite imprisoned\u00a0WikiLeaks\u00a0publisher Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges for publishing accurate information reveali&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12064,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25575,1312,117,5720,5136],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668259"}],"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\/12064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668325,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668259\/revisions\/668325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}