The decision to grant Assange the right to appeal the U.S. extradition order is probably meant to further draw things out and increase the odds that Assange dies in prison. From Chris Hedges at chrishedges.substack.com:
Dust to Dust – by Mr. Fish
The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal the order to extradite him to the United States may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. It does not mean Julian will elude extradition. It does not mean the court has ruled, as it should, that he is a journalist whose only “crime” was providing evidence of war crimes and lies by the U.S. government to the public. It does not mean he will be released from the high-security HMS Belmarsh prison where, as Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, after visiting Julian there, said he was undergoing a “slow-motion execution.”…
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