美司法部要求英国引渡维基解密创始人阿桑奇_时事

美司法部要求英国引渡维基解密创始人阿桑奇

The Justice Department has formally asked Britain to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face charges related to his release of a massive trove of secret diplomatic cables and war logs, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.

一名美国官员周二表示，美国司法部已正式要求英国将维基解密创始人阿桑奇引渡到美国。阿桑奇将面临与泄露大量机密外交电报和战争信息有关的多项指控。

A formal request for Assange’s extradition was delivered to British authorities last Thursday, just days before a June 11 deadline.

美国在上周四、也就是在6月11日截止日几天前向英国当局送交了引渡阿桑奇的正式请求。

Under an extradition treaty with the United Kingdom, the U.S. had 60 days from the date of Assange’s April 11 arrest in London to file a formal request for his handover. The treaty bars U.S. prosecutors from charging Assange with crimes not outlined in the request, making the filing of additional counts against Assange highly unlikely.

根据与英国签署的引渡条约，从阿桑奇4月11日在伦敦被捕之日起，美国有60天的时间向英国递交正式移交请求。引渡条约禁止美国检察官以请求中未列明的罪名起诉阿桑奇，因此阿桑奇面对更多指控的可能性非常小。

The Australian-born computer programmer and activist is being sought to face charges in federal court in Northern Virginia that he worked with former Army specialist Chelsea Manning to unlawfully obtain and publish hundreds of thousands of reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as conditions within the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.