On January 4th 2021, judge Vanessa Baraitser will announce the verdict in the Julian Assange extradition hearing in London. The 4 week trial of Julian Assange at the Old Bailey courthouse was highlighted by a glaring lack of due process and countless violations of law from each country involved in the extradition process: the United Kingdom, the United States, and Ecuador. Further, violations of human rights, international law, the rights of political asylum seekers and basic human rights according to the UN charter were equally ignored throughout the proceedings.
Facing up to 175 years in prison the defendant, Julian Assange, was denied access to his legal team, held in abysmal conditions within Belmarsh prison, kidnapped from the Ecuadorian embassy and subject to psychological tortured as concluded by UN special rapporter on torture Nils Melzer. Despite not being a citizen of the United States a secret grand jury as indicted Assange under the 1917 Espionage Act (often referred to as the most controversial laws ever to become law in the United States) - claiming universal jurisdiction.
During the trial it was also revealed that on behalf of the CIA and US billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the private firm UC Global in charge of security at the Ecuadorian Embassy systematically spied on Assange and his legal team. This is a clear violation of attorney client privilege, denying the defendant of the possibility of a fair trial, which necessitates that the case immediately thrown out.
However, the facts matter little in the British Kangaroo court making a mockery of the British legal system. As the legal proceedings have plainly demonstrated the US military and intelligence agencies incessant determination to get their hands on the Wikileaks former editor-in-chief. Violating international law, human rights law, standard bail proc
