Julian Assange's legal team are challenging the British court's view that it would not be an abuse of process to extradite him to the United States. The appeal rests on the fact that Assange is being prosecuted for his political opinions. Binoy Kampmark reports.
It was a dastardly formality. On April 20, at a hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court, Julian Assange, beamed in via video link from Belmarsh Prison, his carceral home for three years, is to be extradited to the United States to face 18 charges, 17 based on the US Espionage Act of 1917.