Julian Assange not doing much better in court than Manning

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Jazz Shaw

6/17/12

 

While most of the stories regarding Wikileaks which make the pages of good old Hot Gas tend to follow the continuing adventures of Bradley Manning, it’s worth noting that the founder of the document dump is having legal problems of his own. Julian Assange is still in the UK and has been fighting extradition to Sweden on charges of rape and sexual assault. Let’s just say that Thursday wasn’t his day.

 

The Supreme Court has dismissed a bid by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to reopen his appeal against extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.

 

Seven judges of Britain’s top court unanimously dismissed the move by Mr Assange as being “without merit”.

 

Two weeks ago the court rejected his argument that a European arrest warrant for extradition was invalid.

 

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