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United States wins attraction over extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange

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The United States gained an attraction in London’s High Court to have Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited to face prison costs, together with breaking a spying regulation and conspiring to hack authorities computer systems.
“The court allows the appeal,” Judge Timothy Holroyde mentioned.
He mentioned the United States had given a package deal of assurances to Britain concerning the circumstances of Assange’s detention.
US authorities accuse Australian-born Assange, 50, of 18 counts referring to Wikileaks’ launch of huge troves of confidential US army information and diplomatic cables which they mentioned had put lives in peril.
The United States was interesting in opposition to a Jan. 4 ruling by a London District Judge that Assange shouldn’t be extradited as a result of he would probably commit suicide in a US jail.