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Joe JACKSON

Lawyers For US Urge UK Court To Reject Assange Appeal Bid

Assange's wife, Stella, has argued they will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights if need be (Credit: AFP)

Lawyers for the United States on Wednesday urged a UK court to block a last-ditch bid by Julian Assange to appeal his extradition there to face espionage charges.

Washington indicted the WikiLeaks founder multiple times between 2018 and 2020 over its publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic files on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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