What does the American asylum hearing do?

Wikileaks founder julian assange will soon appear in a British court for the first time. He himself has always opposed his extradition to the United States.

Assange came this far because in April this year, US military secrets were exposed through Wikileaks. The 48-year-old Australian lost the asylum of the Ecuadorian Embassy and was rudely dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy by the British police. He has been held in Belmarsh prison, a high-security prison in southwest London.

If all the charges brought against him by the United States under the espionage law are established, then he is likely to be sentenced to 175 years in an American prison, which is actually no different from life imprisonment. Judge Tan Yi of Westminster District Court in London ordered Assange to attend the case management hearing on June 5438+00 and June 2 1, which will decide whether Assange can be released on parole during his defense. In addition to the hearing on June 265438+1October 2 1, the British court will hold the second hearing on February 28 next year.

The reason why Assange is remembered by the US government is that in 20 10, Assange used Wikipedia to publish confidential military and diplomatic documents of the US bombing operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, which aroused the anger of the US government. Assange and his supporters believe that all cases against him are political persecution in the United States, and he has been treated extremely unfairly.

The reason why he is currently serving his sentence in prison is that he violated the British bail clause and sought asylum from the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK, suspected of resisting arrest. What the British police did was due to the pressure of the American government. In the previously published American indictment, only one charge of conspiring to invade the computer was listed. The extradition hearing will be held in Westminster District Court.