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Assange allowed to challenge his extradition in the UK Supreme Court
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Assange allowed to challenge his extradition in the UK Supreme Court

LONDON | British justice on Monday authorized the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange to ask the Supreme Court to be able to challenge a decision authorizing his extradition to the United States, which wants to try him for a massive leak of documents. • Read also: Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States The High Court judges made clear in their ruling that it was ultimately up to the Supreme Court, the UK's highest court, whether or not to allow the 50-year-old Australian's appeal. In December, the High Court overturned on appeal the decision of a judge who refused at first instance to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he is being prosecuted for the dissemination, from 2010, of more than 700,000 documents classified on US milita...