Delay to Julian Assange’s appeal bid decision ‘utterly bizarre’, says his wife

Stella Assange, the wife of Julian Assange, speaking during a press conference at Doughty Street Chambers, central London, after her husband’s bid for an appeal against extradition to the US was delayed (Lucy North/PA)

Julian Assange’s wife has called judges’ decisions to delay their ruling over whether the WikiLeaks founder can bring a final UK appeal against extradition as “utterly bizarre” with the court “tying itself in knots”.

The Australian faces prosecution in the US over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.