The United States must give assurances that Julian Assange will not face the death penalty before judges will consider dismissing the WikiLeaks founder's bid to bring an extradition appeal, the High Court has ruled.Assange faces prosecution in the US over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.In a January 2021 ruling, then-district judge Vanessa Bar

The United States must give assurances that Julian Assange will not face the death penalty before judges will consider dismissing the WikiLeaks founder's bid to bring an extradition appeal, the High Court has ruled.Assange faces prosecution in the US over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.In a January 2021 ruling, then-district judge Vanessa Baraitser said that Assange should not be sent to the US, citing a real and "oppressive" risk of suicide, while ruling against him on all other issues.Later that year, US authorities won their High Court bid to overturn this block, paving the way towards Assange's extradition.During a two-day hearing in February, lawyers for the 52-year-old asked for the go-ahead to challenge the original judge's dismissal of other parts of his case to prevent his extradition.In a judgment on Tuesday, Dame Victoria