Hearings in the U.S. extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not go ahead next month as scheduled because of the coronavirus lockdown, a British judge decided on Monday. Forty-eight-year-old Assange is being held at London’s Belmarsh Prison where he’s fighting a request by the United States to send him to stand trial on accusations that he conspired to hack government computers and espionage.
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