Trump administration targeting 'enemy of America' Julian Assange, court told

WikiLeaks founder’s life is at risk if he is extradited to US, judge in London hears.

Other key parts of the evidence related to the claim, which emerged last week, that a then US Republican congressman offered Assange a pardon if he denied Russian involvement in the leaking of US Democratic party emails during the 2016 US presidential contest.

The court was told that Dana Rohrabacher, who claims to have made the proposal on his own initiative, had presented it as a “win-win” scenario that would allow Assange to leave the embassy and get on with his life. Assange was also said to have been asked to reveal the source of the leaks and rejected this overture.