{"id":402924,"date":"2019-04-11T22:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/corbyn-opposes-extradition-of-assange-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-04-11T22:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:12:20","slug":"corbyn-opposes-extradition-of-assange-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/corbyn-opposes-extradition-of-assange-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Corbyn opposes extradition of Assange \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5cafa2bddda4c8f7618b45e1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        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.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/trends\/julian-assange-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FOLLOW LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON JULIAN ASSANGE\u2019S ARREST<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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 <em>\u201clifted 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<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The extradition of Julian Assange to the US for exposing evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan should be opposed by the British government.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CxTUrOfkHt\">pic.twitter.com\/CxTUrOfkHt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeremycorbyn\/status\/1116424423953903616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cJulian 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> said Abbott.<\/p>\n<p>The US has charged Assange with <em>\u201cconspiracy to commit computer intrusion,\u201d<\/em> over the 2010 publication of classified US documents provided to WikiLeaks by US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning.<\/p>\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. 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Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/456286-corbyn-opposes-assange-extradition\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Labour MP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}