The legal wrangling could take years, possibly reaching the European Court of Human Rights.
By William Booth and William Booth London bureau chief Email Bio Follow Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow April 12 at 8:16 AM LONDON — The plush neighborhood of Knightsbridge, a high-rent hub of high-end retail and discreet diplomats, awoke Friday with one fewer international curiosity in its midst.
Half of Britons had no opinion on Ecuador’s decision to get rid of him, according to a YouGov poll. More than a third supported the move, and only one in seven wanted him to stay.Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rally outside the Victorian State Library in Melbourne, Australia, April 12, 2019. Now that Assange has lost his perch in Knightsbridge, the 47-year-old will battle extradition from a British jail.
Prime Minister Theresa May said his arrest showed that “no one is above the law,” while Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party, said the government should oppose Assange’s extradition. The left-wing leader said Assange was being targeted “for exposing evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
His new life will not be as comfortable as the previous seven years in the Ecuadoran Embassy, where was free to drink wine, skateboard down the halls and receive guests. Until his exasperated hosts cut off his Internet, Assange was all over social media. In British prisons, mobile phones are prohibited and Internet access highly restricted.
Assange’s previous battle against extradition to Sweden took 18 months. Jeffress, who was based in London from 2010 to 2013, recalled one high-profile terrorism case that dragged on for 13 years before the defendant was finally extradited to the United States.
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