Assange didn’t appear at court. He’s accused of working with former U.S. Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning to get classified documents from databases containing about 90,000 Afghanistan war-related activity reports, 400,000 Iraq war-related reports and 250,000 State Department cables. Assange, 47, is serving a 50-week sentence in the U.K.’s Belmarsh jail for skipping bail. The next extradition hearing may take place from the jail or a court there, Judge Emma Arbuthnot said Thursday. Assange was removed from Ecuadorian embassy in London in April, after taking refuge there in 2012.

Source: National Post May 30, 2019 10:07 UTC