MULTI-awarded publisher, activist, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been battling about 13 years of legal battles and detentions since gaining international attention for exposing sensitive diplomatic cables that featured alleged war crimes by the U.S. military in Iraq ànd Afghanistan.
He founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and exposed highly classified documents of the U.S. military in 2010.
U.S. authorities charged Assange with 18 offenses and accused him of conspiring to break into its military databases after exposing a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
If convicted, the embattled WikiLeaks founder faces up to 175 years in jail.
On Monday, London’s High Court ruled that U.S. assurances over his case were unsatisfactory and he would be granted a full appeal hearing.
These assurances by the U.S. included not seeking the death penalty and allowing Assange to rely upon the First Amendment to seek defense and the right to free speech in a trial.
