The London extradition hearing for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was postponed because of concern that one of the lawyers involved might have been exposed to COVID-19.
The judge of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in Westminster, Vanessa Baraitser, postponed the extradition hearing to the United States (USA) of the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, due to the alleged contagion with Covid-19 of one of the attorneys for the plaintiff.
The court hearing, scheduled at the Criminal Court of the Central Criminal Court in London, was scheduled for this Thursday, the same date that its postponement was announced.
Judge Baraitser set the new date for next Monday, September 14, after receiving the notification that one of the lawyers representing the US would have been infected with Covid-19, and it is expected that he will deliver the result of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test this Friday.
«Given the uncertainty of the situation, I agree to postpone the hearing until we know the results of the tests,» Baraitser said.
The trial to air the extradition of Assange began in February of this year, and has been criticized by different social organizations internationally after the deterioration of health and the alleged torture to which the founder of WikiLeaks has been subjected.
Meanwhile, Assange’s lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, said, regarding the health situation of the US representative, that «for the moment, we respectfully argue that we have to move forward assuming that she has Covid-19.»
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