{"id":87127,"date":"2019-04-11T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87127"},"modified":"2019-04-11T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:52:01","slug":"pursued-for-exposing-evidence-of-us-atrocities-corbyn-opposes-extradition-of-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/11\/pursued-for-exposing-evidence-of-us-atrocities-corbyn-opposes-extradition-of-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursued for \u2018exposing evidence of US atrocities\u2019: Corbyn opposes extradition of Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy RT<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nLeader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has publicly opposed UK\u2019s possible extradition of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the US, saying he exposed evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/trends\/julian-assange-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FOLLOW LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON JULIAN ASSANGE\u2019S ARREST<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours following Assange\u2019s arrest in London on Thursday, Corbyn tweeted a video statement of Labour MP Diane Abbott, who argued in Parliament that WikiLeaks had\u00a0<em>lifted the veil on US military operations in a variety of theaters, none of which have produced a favourable outcome for the people of those countries.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Julian Assange is not being pursued to protect US national security, he is being pursued because he has exposed wrongdoing by US administrations and their military forces,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;said Abbott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US has charged Assange with&nbsp;<em>conspiracy to commit computer intrusion,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;over the 2010 publication of classified US documents provided to WikiLeaks by US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fearing extradition to the US on spurious charges raised against him in Sweden, Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012. He remained inside the embassy for almost seven years, with the UK denying him passage out, until his asylum was revoked by Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/456279-assange-arrest-reaction-evo-morales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ALSO ON RT.COM<\/strong><strong>Bolivian president condemns \u2018persecution of Assange over US\u2019 murders &amp; spying\u2019<\/strong><br>\n\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy RT Leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has publicly opposed UK\u2019s possible extradition of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the US, saying he exposed evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. FOLLOW LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON JULIAN ASSANGE\u2019S ARREST Hours following Assange\u2019s arrest in London on Thursday, Corbyn tweeted a video statement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}