LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed Tuesday to step up his site's release of secret documents while he fights extradition to Sweden, as his lawyers argued that sending him to Stockholm could land him in Guantanamo Bay or even on U.S. death row.
That claim, regarded by many legal experts as extremely unlikely, is part of a preliminary defense argument released by Assange's attorneys ahead of a court hearing next month.
The Australian computer expert is wanted in Sweden to answer sex-crimes allegations. American officials also are trying to build a criminal case against WikiLeaks, which has published a trove of leaked diplomatic cables and secret U.S. military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Assange, who is on bail and living under curfew at a supporter's mansion in eastern England, vowed Tuesday to speed up the release of secret documents.
“We are stepping up our publishing for matters related to Cablegate and other materials,” Assange said outside the high-security Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London. “Those will shortly be occurring through our newspaper partners around the world — big and small newspapers and some human rights organizations.”[source]
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