PanARMENIAN.Net - A British court has set a date early next year for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face a U.S. extradition attempt over his role in revealing classified government and military information, ABC reports.
Ben Brandon, a British lawyer representing the US Government, told a court hearing on Friday, June 14 that the case "related to one of the largest compromises of confidential information in the history of the United States".
US officials are seeking to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act, blaming him for directing WikiLeaks' publication of a huge trove of secret documents that disclosed the names of people who provided confidential information to American and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Judge Emma Arbuthnot set a full extradition hearing for February 25, 2020. It is expected to last about five days.
Assange asserts that he is a journalist with First Amendment protections and is fi...