My guess is that Assange will be extradited.I hope they don't return
   him to America
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   11 Ağu 2021 16:35, Peter Fairbrother< peter@tsto.co.uk> yazdı:

     On 11/08/2021 04:31, jim bell wrote:
     > To:   Stephan Simanowit     Amnesty International
     press@amnesty.org
     >
     > From:  Jim Bell
     >
     > I am an American with great interest in Julian Assange's case, and
     > probably engaged in discussions with him about 1995 (although at
     the
     > time he was under a pseudonyn) on the Cypherpunks email list.
     >
     > However, I happen to have learned Federal law, although I have
     never
     > been a lawyer or paralegal:  I spent probably 15,000 hours in
     various
     > law libraries learning many areas of American Federal law.
     >
     > Over the last few years, I realized that Assange has some
     > issues(defenses) that I am not aware were being discussed in the
     news
     > media.   However, I haven't read the actual legal filings from the
     UK
     > case, so I didn't learn if they have been used.   However, I did
     send
     > some of this material to Barrister Jennifer Robinson, who is
     Assange's
     > barrister.   I didn't get an answer, although I didn't expect to
     receive
     > one.
     >
     > A very brief description, gone into much greater detail below.
     >
     > 1.    In virtually every issue against Assange, there appears to
     be no
     > "extraterritoriality jurisdiction" present in American Federal
     law.
     > This means that American courts have ruled that in order to apply
     > American law to crimes committed in areas physically outside
     America,

     However if the effect of a crime committed by person who is outside
     america is against eg a computer or other thing or person inside
     america, then in american law that crime was committed within the
     bounds
     of the unitedstates, notwithstanding that the criminal was not in
     america. So issues of extraterritoriality do not apply.

     Applies also to some US forces when they are abroad, their bases and
     assets are sometimes regarded as being inside the unitedstates.

     As an aside, for the purposes of the UK extradition hearing, whether
     the
     US courts have jurisdiction is a question of UK law, not US law.

     It is just possible (though unlikely) that assange might be
     correctly
     extradited under UK law then a US court might decide not to continue
     on
     US law extraterritoriality grounds.

     Peter Fairbrother