The US must ensure Julian Assange has freedom of speech protections and will not receive the death penalty before he is extradited, judges have ruled.
The UK High Court said the Wikileaks founder could be allowed to launch a new appeal against being sent to the US without those commitments.
US authorities say Mr Assange endangered lives by publishing thousands of classified documents.
His lawyers have argued that a case is a form of “state retaliation”.
The court has adjourned its final decision on Mr Assange’s extradition by three weeks to give the US government time to comply with its order.
Tuesday’s court order is the latest twist in a legal saga that began when Mr Assange’s website Wikileaks published confidential US documents in 2010 and 2011.
The 52-year-old Australian national attempted to avoid extradition to the US by seeking refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London but was arrested in 2019 and has been held in UK prisons since.
In June 2022, then Home Secretary Priti Patel ruled Mr Assange could be extradited to the US to face trial for 18 offenses, a decision which his lawyers have challenged in the courts.
