Feb 24
Bad news for WikiLeaks’ embattled leader. A British court has confirmed Sweden’s extradition request. Julian Assange’s lawyers have one week to appeal ruling, otherwise he’ll be sent to Sweden where he’ll be tried on charges of rape and molestation, among others, stemming from a trip Assange took to that country last summer.
The New York Times describes Assange’s reaction to the ruling as “impassive.” The three month legal fight, of course, played out shortly after WikiLeaks released somewhere in the neighborhood of 250,000 American diplomatic cables–the latest in a series of major leaks that have made Assange and his site the bane of governments all over the world.
Assange has long denied the charges, at one point referring to the place of his extradition as, “the Saudi Arabia of feminism.” His lawyers have announced plans to fight the ruling.
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