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“District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that while US prosecutors had met the tests for Mr Assange to be extradited for trial, the US was incapable of preventing him from attempting to take his own life.”

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Read the reasoning, not the headline. The judge accepted nearly the whole US case and blocked extradition only on suicide risk in American prisons. The precedent that publishing secrets can be prosecuted as hacking survives intact. The US can appeal, and it will.