Trial in London: Three scenarios of what could happen next for Julian Assange

The direct and indirect legal tug of war surrounding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been going on for more than 13 years – and it has long been about what the 52-year-old Australian feared for a long time, even before a corresponding request was known: his Delivery to the USA.

Assange faces high penalties there: he will have to answer a total of 18 charges there, including for publishing secret information about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and hundreds of thousands of documents from the US diplomatic corps from all over the world. The non-US citizen Assange is to be charged under the Espionage Act of 1917, also known as the Espionage Act; the founder of the disclosure platform WikiLeaks faces up to 175 years in prison if convicted.

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