{"id":25114,"date":"2024-03-21T04:06:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25114"},"modified":"2024-03-21T04:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:06:35","slug":"assanges-lawyer-says-us-is-not-prepared-to-reach-agreement-with-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25114","title":{"rendered":"Assange&#8217;s lawyer says US is not prepared to reach agreement with journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange say the U.S. Department of Justice continues to seek his client&#8217;s extradition on all 18 charges that threaten Assange&#8217;s 175-year prison sentence and has shown no willingness to reach a deal.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He was commenting on a report published by The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. Department of Justice was considering whether to allow&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240221\/1057181601.html\">Assange<\/a>&nbsp;to plead guilty to charges of mishandling classified information, potentially striking a deal that would ultimately free Assange. Released from British prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Lawyer Barry Pollack said in a written statement obtained by Sputnik News: &#8220;There is no indication to us that the Department of Justice intends to settle this case. The United States will continue to demand Assange&#8217;s extradition with the same insistence, and he may be sentenced to up to 175 years for this years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The defense is currently seeking to appeal to London&#8217;s High Court against the decision to extradite Assange from the UK to the US, where the 52-year-old Australian is accused of leaking the largest batch of classified information in the country&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Assange rose to fame by founding the website WikiLeaks, which published hundreds of thousands of classified materials, including videos of Iraqi civilians killed in U.S. helicopter attacks on Baghdad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240321\/1057860608.html\">Sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange say the U.S. Department of Justice continues to seek his client&#8217;s extradition on all 18 charges that threaten Assange&#8217;s 175-year prison sentence and has shown no willingness to reach a deal. He was commenting on a report published by The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. Department of Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8903,26779,4301,4944,3580],"class_list":["post-25114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-agreement","tag-assange","tag-imprisonment","tag-journalist","tag-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25116,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25114\/revisions\/25116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}