The Wikileaks founder could now be extradited.
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London An appeals court in London has overturned the rejection of the US extradition request for Julian Assange. A judge in the London High Court announced on Friday. The Wikileaks founder must now expect to be extradited to the United States after all.
The US judiciary wants to try the 50-year-old Australian on allegations of espionage. He faces up to 175 years imprisonment in the United States. A judge in London had rejected the extradition request in January with regard to Assange’s compromised mental health and the expected prison conditions in the United States.
Assange is accused of having stolen and published secret material from US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with the whistleblower Chelsea Manning. He put US informants in danger. His supporters see him as an investigative journalist who brought war crimes to light.
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