Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange still faces arrest if he leaves the Ecuadorean embassy after a judge today upheld a British arrest warrant against him for skipping bail.
Senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot told Westminster magistrates’ court she considered that his arrest would be a “proportionate response” and not against the public interest.
Mr Assange has been living inside the embassy in Knightsbridge, central London, for more than five years for fear that, if he leaves, he could extradited to the US for questioning over the activities of the whistle-blowing website.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
