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Re: UPDATED: Julian Assange: Wikileaks Founder Arrested
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Quote from The Sun: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to America to face espionage charges after the US Government win their bid to overturn a High Court Ruling.
Assange, 50, has been fighting extradition to the US, but today the court ruled in a sensational U-turn that he can be extradited.
His lawyers have previously argued that he is a high suicide risk and is too ill to be sent to America for a trial.
US authorities brought a High Court challenge against a January ruling by then-district judge Vanessa Baraitser that Assange should not be sent to the US, in which she cited a real and "oppressive" risk of suicide.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde, today ruled in favour of the US after a two-day hearing in October.
But the US has given assurances Assange will not be held in a notorious "supermax" jail.
Lord Burnett said: "That risk is in our judgment excluded by the assurances which are offered.
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