Julian Assange

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Julian Assange

Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, on Tuesday decided to appeal by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in order to avert the extradition to Sweden, where he is expected to stand on trial for what he is accused of. The Supreme Court will hear his case next month. According to the British publication The Guardian, Assange is expected to urge that his case was of a very general importance, and that he should be heard by the most senior judges of the country.� �
According to the Judicial Office of England and Wales, the High Court is to consider Julian Assange’s application for a certificate of law of general importance on December 5.
The move comes after the Australian editor lost the high court appeal earlier this month, when the two judges dismissed all four arguments in favor of annulling the extradition to Sweden. One of these arguments was that if extradited to Sweden, Assange could be further extradited to the United States, where he could be sent to Guantanamo Bay or sentenced to death.
In Sweden Assange is accused of having sexually assaulted two Swedish women, accusations Assange rejects as slander. One of the accusers claims that she consented to have sex with the editor but that she asked him to use a condom, which he did not.
Assange complained that the European arrest warrant was so restrictive that it did not allow the English judges to see what the grounds for extradition were.
Assange’s case became notorious after WikiLeaks published some 250,000 diplomatic cables of the American embassies all over the world, causing embarrassment in the United States and the radical reaction of politicians like Sarah Palin, who went as far as to say that he should e “hunted down,” an allegation used by Assange in his defense.
Since last year, when he had to flee the US to Europe, the American authorities attempted to build a case against him revolving around the national security acts. The effort was without success, when private Bradley Manning said that he cooperated with the WikiLeaks of his own accord, that he was not manipulated into releasing national information, as they tried to do in order to accuse him of breaching the national security.�
Soon after the announcement of the sentence at the high court, Assange’s lawyers asked the Australian government to intervene on his behalf and obtain guarantees that he would not be extradited from Sweden to the US. It is expected that the Gillard government will do little for him, since the PM herself is of the opinion that he was wrong to publish the classified documents.�

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