Britain should extradite Julian Assange to Sweden, if Sweden requests it. When justice has been done there, Sweden should then extradite him to America
was dragged out of Ecuador’s embassy and into a London courtroom on April 11th, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was his life’s work, moral character and personal hygiene in the dock. Mr Assange was “no hero”, said Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s foreign secretary. Nonsense, retorted Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party, he “told us the truth about what was actually happening in Afghanistan and in Iraq”.
When Mr Assange said in 2010 that “I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable,” his fans cannot have thought he meant President Vladimir Putin. The contrast between WikiLeaks’s attacks on American spy agencies and its collaboration with their autocratic rivals speaks volumes about Mr Assange’s real motives.
America’s indictment has some troubling elements. It sets out how Mr Assange helped Ms Manning conceal her communications and exhorted her to provide more information. Both are acts within the legitimate bounds of a relationship between publisher and source, rather than signs of nefarious intent. Some critics gripe that going after Mr Assange for hacking is like going after Al Capone for tax evasion—that it was the only charge prosecutors think they can make stick, and that the real reason they want to lock him up is because he threatens national security. But there is nothing wrong with prosecutors acting pragmatically, and they were right not to file bigger charges, such as espionage, that might threaten press freedom if they were successfully used to convict the WikiLeaks founder.
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