Moments from now, arguments begin in the second day of a critical hearing in London on whether a media organization's founder Julian Assange has the right to appeal the government's decision to extradite him to the U.S. The 52-year-old is wanted on 18 criminal charges in America and is facing life in prison for his organization's leak of classified materials about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Assange's team argues that the extradition is political and undermines freedom of the press, stating it's an attack on the truth and the public's right to know. They claim Assange is a political prisoner whose life is at risk.
