“It is only the beginning of a new legal battle. We will appeal through the legal system,” WikiLeaks said in a statement.
U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel signed off Friday on the extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S., but it still may be some time before the WikiLeaks founder flys to U.S. soil. In a Twitter thread, the U.K. Home Office specified that Assange is now able to appeal the decision and “will only be surrendered to the requesting state when all avenues of legal challenge are exhausted.” WikiLeaks announced on Twitter after the decision that Assange plans to do just that.
“Today is not the end of the fight”, the organization said in a statement. “It is only the beginning of a new legal battle. We will appeal through the legal system, the next appeal will be before the High Court. We will fight louder and shout harder on the streets, we will organize and we will make Julian’s story be known to all.”
Assange is wanted in the U.S. for leaking thousands of classified documents related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in 2010 and 2011, a move that the U.
