Assange: ‘High chance’ I’d be killed ‘Jack Ruby-style’ in US prison

Agence France-Presse
December 24, 2010

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LONDON — WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said in an interview published Thursday there was a “high chance” he would be killed in a US jail if he were to be extradited from Britain on espionage charges.

The Australian is on bail in Britain fighting a bid by Sweden to extradite him over sex assault claims, but Washington is believed to be considering how to indict him over the leaking of thousands of US diplomatic cables.

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Assange told The Guardian it would be “politically impossible” for Britain to send him across the Atlantic, adding that the government of Prime Minister David Cameron would want to show it had not been “co-opted” by Washington.

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This article was posted: Friday, December 24, 2010 at 1:17 pm

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