LONDON (Sputnik) – Julian Assange’s mother Christine said Monday’s decision by a UK court to block her son’s extradition to the United States was “the best news.”
Fidel Narvaez, a former Ecuadorean consul who knew Assange from his time as a refugee at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, told the media outside the court that the ruling was a “victory of all the people who never gave up.”
He noted that the UK judicial system had upheld the political arguments provided by the US, meaning that freedom of expression was still under attack.
The WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower is wanted in the US on espionage charges after his website leaked thousands of secret US cables on Iraqi and Afghan wars. The court denied a US request to extradite him over concerns for the 49-year-old’s mental health.
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