WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been denied bail in the United Kingdom, where he has been jailed since 2019.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser made the ruling on the grounds that Assange, 49, was a flight risk, claiming that there are “substantial grounds” to believe that he would “fail to surrender to court to face the appeal proceedings” if released.
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