WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden
London:
Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange can be extradited to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, closing his final
legal avenue of appeal in Britain.
'The request for Mr Assange's extradition has been lawfully made and his appeal against extradition is accordingly is dismissed,' said Supreme Court president Nicholas Phillips.
Assange can conceivably appeal the decision to the European Court of Human Rights but lawyers say such a move is unlikely to stop his extradition for long.
Assange, 40, has spent the better part of two years fighting attempts to send him to the Scandinavian nation.
Assange is best known for revealing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. documents, including a hard-to-watch video that captured U.S. forces gunning down a crowd of Iraqi civilians and journalists that they'd mistaken for insurgents. His release of a quarter-million classified State Department cables outraged Washington and destabilized American diplomacy worldwide.
But his secret-spilling work came under a cloud after two Swedish women accused him of molestation and rape following a visit to the country in mid-2010. Assange has denied wrongdoing, saying the sex was consensual, but has refused to go to Sweden, saying he doesn't believe he'll get a fair trial there.
'The request for Mr Assange's extradition has been lawfully made and his appeal against extradition is accordingly is dismissed,' said Supreme Court president Nicholas Phillips.
Assange can conceivably appeal the decision to the European Court of Human Rights but lawyers say such a move is unlikely to stop his extradition for long.
Assange, 40, has spent the better part of two years fighting attempts to send him to the Scandinavian nation.
Assange is best known for revealing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. documents, including a hard-to-watch video that captured U.S. forces gunning down a crowd of Iraqi civilians and journalists that they'd mistaken for insurgents. His release of a quarter-million classified State Department cables outraged Washington and destabilized American diplomacy worldwide.
But his secret-spilling work came under a cloud after two Swedish women accused him of molestation and rape following a visit to the country in mid-2010. Assange has denied wrongdoing, saying the sex was consensual, but has refused to go to Sweden, saying he doesn't believe he'll get a fair trial there.
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