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WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange. WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange. Courtesy ABC News

A virtual protest against the planned extradition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will be held on 26 August at 5pm London time (2am AEDT 27 August), the organisers have announced.

The event will be hosted on the Wistaverse, a global platform for protest in the metaverse, and organised by the Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign, a body that is working with Assange and his family.

The event will feature a pre-recorded speech by Assange, and also speeches by Stella Assange, WikiLeaks co-founder and editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson and former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The Wistaverse is a not-for-profit protocol hosted on the Polygon blockchain and the rally will take place within a virtual auditorium designed to look like the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

One of the founders of the Wistaverse, Jules, said in a statement: "We are excited that the Don't Extradite Assange campaign has decided to use the platform to host such a key rally shortly after the launch of the Wistaverse this May.

"At that time, the inaugural protest was an event organized by Amnesty International in support of abortion rights worldwide.

"Now, we trust that the event this Saturday will set a signal and focus all eyes on freedom of speech to support that cause. The new Web3 technologies are enabling unprecedented participation and the opportunity for everyone to shape worldwide governance.”

Assange is still being held in the UK's Belmarsh maximum security jail as he awaits the outcome of a second appeal to the UK High Court against an extradition order.

In June, the Australian lost his first appeal against the order that aims to send him to the US for trial over alleged espionage charges.

The second appeal was filed on 13 June. Since then his wife, father and brother have been campaigning for his release.

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Sam Varghese

Sam Varghese has been writing for iTWire since 2006, a year after the site came into existence. For nearly a decade thereafter, he wrote mostly about free and open source software, based on his own use of this genre of software. Since May 2016, he has been writing across many areas of technology. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years in India (Indian Express and Deccan Herald), the UAE (Khaleej Times) and Australia (Daily Commercial News (now defunct) and The Age). His personal blog is titled Irregular Expression.

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