Antiwar.com Original
On July 3,
2020, Julian Assange will turn 50 years old, spending
his third birthday behind bars. The WikiLeaks publisher has been held without
any formal charges alongside criminals and terrorists inside London’s high-security
prison for exposing the US government’s war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On January 4, 2021, the British Judge Vanessa Baraitster rejected the US extradition
request of Assange on medical grounds, noting her concerns about the harsh US
prison condition. Two days later the judge denied his bail application, sending
Assange straight back to the same prison that contributed to his deteriorating
health.
In February, the Biden Justice Department decided to pursue the extradition