Two British High Court judges say they would grant Julian Assange a new appeal unless U-S authorities give further assurances within three weeks about what will happen to him.
Mr Assange has been indicted in America on charges over Wikileaks’ publication in 2010 of hundreds of thousands of classified documents.
Mr Assange’s supporters say he is a journalist protected by the First Amendment who exposed U-S military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan that was in the public interest.