WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not be immediately extradited to the U.S., British court rules

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday was granted permission by a U.K. court to appeal the case against him.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday was granted permission by a U.K. court to appeal his extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on spying charges.

A further hearing on May 20 will determine whether the assurances provided are satisfactory, the court said. An appeal hearing will be granted if those assurances are not given. A further hearing on May 20 will determine whether the assurances provided are satisfactory, the court said.. In that time, Assange has spent seven years in self-exile in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and the last nearly five years at Belmarsh, a high-security prison on the outskirts of the U.K. capital.

WikiLeaks gained international prominence in 2010, when the website released footage from a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack that killed two Reuters news staff and several others in Iraq's capital, Baghdad.

 

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