Assange Trial: In support of his argument, Lewis is quoting at length from Lord Mustill, a liberal law lord who is perhaps most famous for his dissent in a case criminalizing sadomasochism. So there’s that.

Lewis now hands the judge a copy of a “statutory instrument based upon EU law.”

“It’s quite complicated, I’m afraid,” Lewis adds. He begins reading from the document. The point of all this again is to establish that the “political offence” exception has no bearing here.

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Lewis returns to the idea that the allegations contained in the US indictment are that Assange leaked unredacted documents containing sensitive names of sources, thereby putting those sources at risk. He argues that this is inherently not a political act, but a criminal one.

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Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights is incorporated into Extradition Act 2003, Fitzgerald argues.

For those unfamiliar, Article 5 ECHR establishes that a person cannot be deprived of liberty without due process of law. US equivalents in 5th & 14th Amendments.

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The defense is giving a lot of play to Dr Julia Jansson’s book “Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics,” as it contains a number of specific passages about WikiLeaks.

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