The High Court of London this Monday authorized Julian Assange file a new appeal against his extradition to the USwhich accuses him of 18 crimes of espionage and computer hacking for revelations on his WikiLeaks portal.

Judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson allowed him to appeal at a future hearing. against two of the three guarantees proposed by the United States about his treatment if he were handed over for trial in this country.

The court found that the defense’s argument that Assange would be discriminated against because of his non-U.S. citizenship merited appellate review because you are not sure that you can protect yourself in the First Amendment to the country’s Constitution, which protects freedom of expression.

In a diplomatic “assurance” note in March, the United States government said the WikiLeaks founder could “attempt to invoke” the First Amendment as a defense, but clarified that The decision on whether this applies or not will be made by the US Department of Justice.

Assange’s lawyer Edward Fitzgerald recalled on Monday that the US attorney in the case, Gordon Kromberg, had already warned that he could use as an argument that “foreign nationals have no right to protection under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.” at least as far as defense information is concerned.”

Thus, the defending team can challenge the guarantees provided by Washington in the sense that You will not be discriminated against because of your nationality and that he may try to rely on the First Amendment.

The third guarantee was accepted and will not be appealed, according to which the US government He promised not to use the death penalty.

This Monday’s hearing before Sharpe and Johnson was to decide whether they accepted the United States guarantees and therefore authorized the extradition, or, on the other hand, whether they rejected them in whole or in part and They gave Assange another way out, which is what eventually happened.

The US accuses the programmer of disseminating classified information in 2010 and 2011, which exposed human rights violations by the US military in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Programmer in preventive detention in a maximum security prison in London, He did not attend the Supreme Court hearing due to health reasons, although his wife Stella Assange was present.

(according to information from EFE)