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Assange: the defence arguments

Legal team claim the US extradition request is "political"

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Joshua Rozenberg
Sep 07, 2020
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An organisation called Bridges for Media Freedom has circulated the skeleton arguments that Julian Assange’s legal team are using in the extradition hearing that started today.

Part one of the document is here and part two is here.

The defence team, headed by Edward Fitzgerald QC, argue that the extradition proceedings amounts to an abuse of process in th…

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