Dear Yuyutsu,

Are you a Buddhist?

According to news reports Julian Assange's extradition
to the US will be decided by the UK courts in 2020.
We're told that the WikiLeaks founder will face a
five day hearing on the matter in 2020.

The UK's home secretary Sajid Javid approved an
extradition request from the US for Assange to face
criminal charges. But the final authority to obey
the request lies with the courts, which will hold
a full hearing some time after February 24th next year.

As Javid said - "I want to see justice done at all
times and we've got a legitimate extradition request,
so I've signed it, but the final decision is now with
the courts."

Assange has stated that - "175 years of my life is
effectively at stake." And, defended the actions of
WikiLeaks saying that the website was not involved
in hacking classified information and is -
"nothing but a publisher."

Mark Summers QC - the lawyer representing Assange said
the extradition case made by the US - "represents the
outrageous and full-frontal assault on journalistic
rights."

Assange is now serving a 50 week jail sentence in the
UK's Belmarsh prison for skipping bail.
Apparently he is very popular amongst the inmates - who
support him and feel he should not be extradited to the
US.

It looks like this discussion has now run its course.

I would like to Thank everyone who contributed.

And, I look forward to our next discussion.

You asked the wrong question. You should have asked "Where would you place Julian Assange on a scale of zero to Don Burke?".

US Home Secretary apparently has signed Julian
Assange's US extradition order.

However Assange's US extradition decision won't be
made by the UK until 2020.

Should be interesting how that will pan out.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this discussion

I look forward to our next one.