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UK court orders Julian Assange to be extradited to the US

UK court rules Julian Assange should be extradited to the US.A UK judge ruled on Wednesday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the US, WikiLeaks andAssange faces 18 charges in the US, which accused him of conspiring to hack government computers and breaching the Espionage Act when WikiLeaks. He faces up to 175 years in prison if he is convicted.

A UK court ruled in January that Assange could appeal an earlier court ruling that he can be extradited to the US, but the UK Supreme Court refused to hear his case in March. said the US had assured the UK that Assange would"receive appropriate clinical psychological treatment" in the US. The US also said it would let Assange serve his sentence in Australia, his home country, if he asks to do so.Assange should not be criminalised for sharing information in the public interest, and that he would not be safe in the US.But Assange is able to appeal the decision again,Assange was living for years in Ecuador's embassy in London as an asylum seeker.

 

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