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Live Updates: Day 10 of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange's Extradition Hearing

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's father John Shipton is seen outside the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court ahead of a hearing to decide whether Assange should be extradited to the United States, in London, UK, 8 September 2020. - Sputnik International

Live Updates: Day 10 of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange's Extradition Hearing

09:40 GMT 21.09.2020 (Updated: 15:08 GMT 28.05.2023)

A hearing to judge whether Assange should be extradited to the United States resumed on 7 September at the London Central Criminal Court, after six months of delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The tenth day of proceedings in the trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition hearing begins on 21 September.

Julian Assange, who has been incarcerated at the maximum-security prison of Belmarsh since his arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy in London in April 2019, is attending the trial from behind a glass panel, away from his defence team.

The hearing is expected to last another two weeks, and it is highly probable that the verdict will be appealed by the losing side.

The US Department of Justice is seeking to extradite Assange on 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act and one count of computer misuse, which carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison, for the publication of classified information on the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and thousands of US diplomatic cables in 2010 and 2011.

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15:02 GMT 21.09.2020

Longer Conversation Comes About the Difficulty of Coming to an Agreement Regarding the Witnesses and the Statements

14:19 GMT 21.09.2020

More Than 160 Politicians Back Calls for Release of WikiLeaks Founder Assange

13:52 GMT 21.09.2020

Activists Take to London Streets to Support Assange

13:51 GMT 21.09.2020

John Rees Comments on Christian Grothoff's Testimony - Video

11:55 GMT 21.09.2020

Rapper M.I.A. Attends the Julian Assange Extradition Trial - Video

11:50 GMT 21.09.2020

Prof Grothoff Had Found No Examples of Anyone Revealing Passcode to Unredacted Cables Before David Leigh's Book

11:43 GMT 21.09.2020

Mr Leigh Was One of Very Few Who Was Given Access to the Full Set, Prof Says

11:42 GMT 21.09.2020

Sometimes Researching the Chronology Required Using Special Tools to Retrieve Information Posted 10 Years Ago That is No Longer Available, Prof Grothoff Says

10:06 GMT 21.09.2020

Cryptome and Pirate Bay Ultimately Published, or in the Latter's Case Linked to, Full Unredacted Cables, Prof Says

10:02 GMT 21.09.2020

‘David Leigh Published Passphrase as Title of a Chapter in His Book Saying It Was Given to Him by Julian Assange’ to Give Access to Unredacted Cables, Prof Grothoff Says

09:46 GMT 21.09.2020

WikiLeaks Site Was Under Constant Attacks ‘to Make the Site Less Visible’, Professor of Computer Science Christian Grothoff Says

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14:57 GMT 21.09.2020

A longer conversation comes about regarding the difficulty of coming to an agreement regarding the witnesses and the statements. Another adjournment has been called to permit Mr Assange and counsel to speak. Following which a WS from Ms Cassandra Fairbanks will likely be read.
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

14:19 GMT 21.09.2020

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange protest outside the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court ahead of a hearing to decide whether Assange should be extradited to the United States, in London, Britain September 9, 2020. - Sputnik International

More Than 160 Politicians Back Calls for Release of WikiLeaks Founder Assange

21 September 2020, 14:30 GMT

13:51 GMT 21.09.2020

Down the street and around the corner from the Old Bailey, buses and cars honk their horns in response to two demonstrators holding up signs in support of Julian Assange. pic.twitter.com/HFt5JwnQoE
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

13:48 GMT 21.09.2020

John Rees, of WikiLeaks' @DEAcampaign, says computer science professor Christian Grothoff "made very, very clear" that the unredacted diplomatic cables first made their way to the public via David Leigh & Luke Harding's book publishing the encryption passphrase.

via @SputnikInt pic.twitter.com/NTIIzymihL
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

11:54 GMT 21.09.2020

11:50 GMT 21.09.2020

Prof Grothoff confirms that he found no examples of anyone revealing the passcode to the unredacted cables before David Leigh's book. He also confirmed that uploading docs online with a sufficiently strong passcode is used by finance, medical services and others.
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

11:43 GMT 21.09.2020

As far as I can tell Mr Leigh was one of the very few who was given access to the full set. And as far as I can tell Mr Leigh was the only one who gave access to [the wider public via a massive leak by disclosing of the password]
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

11:38 GMT 21.09.2020

“To some extent would you accept that you are dependent on the contents of those documents [provided by the Defence] being true when piecing the chronology together”? Asks prosecution lawyer.

Prof appears to answer in the affirmative, to a limited extent.
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

10:05 GMT 21.09.2020

This material was available on the internet in a way that would be "virtually impossible" to stop.

EXAMINATION IN CHIEF IS DONE *** CROSS IS TO BEGIN
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

10:01 GMT 21.09.2020

Prof Grothoff notes that some mirrors at some point contained the unredacted cables, "in encrypted form so it would be useles". Very few of the mirrors that included the unredacted cables having not followed the instructions by WikiLeaks and just sought to copy everything
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

The encryption password could not have been changed by WikiLeaks Professor Grothoff explains. He notes that a German newspaper Der Freitag published the fact that there was a password that was revealed in a book that could lead to the encrypted file which had been mirrored.
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

09:41 GMT 21.09.2020

Professor of Computer Science at Christian Grothoff, of Bern University of Applied Sciences, has just been sworn in via video link.

He was asked to look at the unredacted classified diplomatic cables (after the release of the documents)
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

The encryption key was described in David Leigh book as a very long passphrase.. and one can determine how much “brute force” it would take to break the password. Prof Grothoff says adding that “the computational effort would have been prohibitive”.
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020

Professor Grothoff explains that a Denial of Service attack directs computers to request the resources of the website as if they were normal users to the extent that the website cannot handle the number of requests to the extent that actual users can’t make use of the website.
— Mohamed Elmaazi (@MElmaazi) September 21, 2020