The United Kingdom’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced on Thursday that he signed the United States’ extradition request for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Javid said he said he signed the papers on Wednesday, a day after the U.S. Justice Department asked the United Kingdom to extradite Assange.
“First of all, I am very pleased the police were able to apprehend him and now he is rightly behind bars because he broke UK law,” Javid told BBC Radio 4 on Thursday. “There is an extradition request from the U.S. that is before the courts tomorrow but yesterday I signed the extradition order and certified it and that will be going in front of the courts tomorrow.”
— source telesurenglish.net | 13 Jun 2019