Assange Decision Welcomed by Australian Journalists’ Union

A High Court decision in Britain to allow Julian Assange to appeal his extradition to the United States is a “small win” for the WikiLeaks founder but he should be freed now, the union for Australia’s journalists says. The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance remains concerned there is no certainty an appeal will be successful, which would mean Assange could still be tried for espionage in the U.S. The Australian’s lawyers argued he might not be able to rely on his right to free speech in a U.S. court. The 52-year-old remains in jail in the UK and is wanted in the US on 18 charges, nearly all under the Espionage Act, relating to WikiLeaks’ mass release of secret US documents—the largest security breaches of their kind in US military history....