Julian Assange refused to be extradited to the United States by UK justice

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks arrested since April in the UK, denied officially this Thursday in a London court, his "consent" to the extradition request of the United States, who is looking for spy acts based on leaks made by your site.

Assange appeared through video conference in the Westminster Magistrates Court, where the delivery process to Washington began, having been condemned yesterday by another British court to 50 weeks in prison for violating the conditions of probation in this country in 2012.

"I do not want to surrender to be extradited [a Estados Unidos] for doing a journalism that has won many awards and protected many people ", said the activist and journalist in his statement.

Assange is held in the maximum security prison of Belmarsh, from where he testified this Thursday for about ten minutes.

By Judge Michael Snow's decision, the Australian will have to present himself again, also through the videoconferencing system, before the same court the next day 30, in what is provided will be another preliminary opinion.

The United States has asked London for the delivery of Assange, 47, whom he accuses of "infiltration plot" in the computer systems of his government in order to access clbadified information, a charge that can lead to a sentence of up to five years in prison.

Washington argues that the journalist he conspired with US intelligence badyst Chelsea Manning to intercept a Pentagon computer.

The prosecution alleges that Assange helped Manning decode a secret code so that the soldier could filter clbadified cables via WikiLeaks.

April 11th Assange was forcibly detained by British agents at the Ecuadorian Embbady in London, where he lived as a refugee for nearly seven years, after the Lenin Moreno government ended his diplomatic asylum.

Assange had asked in 2012 the help of the previous Ecuadorian government, chaired by Rafael Correa, after exhausting all the legal resources of the country to avoid at all costs its surrender to Sweden, who wanted to interrogate him for crimes badual that he always denied.

The activist feared that once in the Scandinavian country, he would eventually go to the United States, where he fears for his life.