The spokeswoman added that “the parties were informed this afternoon.”
The case will now be in the hands of the interior minister, Priti Patel, Wikileaks said on Twitter.
The 50-year-old Australian is being prosecuted by the US justice system for disseminating, since 2010, more than 700,000 classified documents on US military and diplomatic activities, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He is also being prosecuted under anti-espionage legislation and faces 175 years in prison, in a case denounced as an attack on press freedom by his supporters.
In January 2021, the British justice decided in favor of the founder of Wikileaks. Invoking the risk of suicide of Julian Assange, Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused to authorize the extradition.
But the United States achieved an important victory in December, when the High Court annulled that decision, considering that that country gave guarantees regarding the judge’s concerns.
On January 24, Julian Assange obtained authorization to appeal against the decision of the High Court before the Supreme Court, which did not want to take the case.