Jan 4 is judgement day for Assange

The decision on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be extradited to the US will be given on 4 January, a judge has confirmed. The WikiLeaks founder, 49, faces 18 charges including a plot to hack computers and conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information. Assange is said to have plotted with defence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack an encrypted password on US Department of Defence computers. He has been fighting extradition since April 2019, when Ecuador revoked his…