US to appeal UK refusal to extradite Assange

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The U.S. government is scheduled to ask Britain’s High Court on Wednesday to overturn a judge’s decision that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Assange, 50, is wanted in the U.S. on allegations of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Wednesday’s hearing marks the start of the two-day legal challenge at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. In August, the High Court heard that the U.S. Government’s appeal would argue there was a legal requirement that an individual must be “so ill” that they are unable to resist suicide for a decision to be taken not to prosecute, or in Assange’s case, extradite them.

 

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