Lawyers: Assange’s Conditions for Extradition to US Not Met

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. holding a U.N. report speaks on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London on Feb. 5, 2016. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

PARIS—Lawyers for Julian Assange say U.S. officials still haven’t met the WikiLeaks founder’s conditions for agreeing to be extradited to the United States.

Last week, Assange offered not to fight extradition if Chelsea Manning were offered clemency. His lawyers now say he was demanding that Manning be freed “immediately.”

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