Fourteen years after publishing confidential American military and diplomatic communications about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars stolen from US government systems, Julian Assange may soon find his years-long effort to avoid trial in the United States as President Joe Biden considers dropping the extradition order, the Washington Post reports.
The Australian government requested the Justice Department drop its effort to try Assange, saying the 14 years he spend holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for seven years before being removed and put into a British detention facility in 2019. British courts are considering an effort to send Assange to the US, but require demands that he will not face the death penalty and he will be able to use free speech protections in his defense.