Julian Assange makes final appeal against extradition to US | DW News

After more than a decade fighting authorities in the British courts, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now facing what could be his last chance to stop his extradition to the US.
A crowd of Assange supporters has gathered outside London's high court calling for him to be released. His lawyers will ask judges there today to grant a new appeal hearing. If that fails, Assange's backers worry he could be put on a plane to the US straight away, where prosecutors want to put him on trial on spying charges. But Assange's wife says he would not survive being extradited.

00:00 Intro and report
03:16 DW's Birgit Maass reports from London
06:13 DW speaks with Mads Andenas, Professor of Law at the University of Oslo and a former UN special rapporteur on arbitrary detention

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