The case involving Julian Assange, the 52-year-old Australian fighting extradition from Britain to the United States, has reached a critical point. On Tuesday evening AEDT, London's High Court is set to hand down its ruling on whether he can appeal against extradition , in what could be his final legal challenge in British courts. "This is it.
" his wife Stella Assange posted on X on Monday. Assange is the figurehead of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website that exposed government secrets worldwide, notably the explosive leak of US military and diplomatic files related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has spent over a decade either in custody or holed up in Ecuador's London embassy, trying to avoid extradition — first to Sweden to answer allegations of rape, and then to the US.
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