Julian Assange Loses Case, Is to Be Extradited to Sweden

[Joe234]

Julian Assange Loses Case, Is to Be Extradited to Sweden

15 minutes ago by Stan Schroeder



The results of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing are in, and the news aren’t good for the Wikileaks founder: he has lost the case, and is to be extradited to Sweden in 10 days. Assange has seven days to appeal the verdict.
Assange is accused of sexual assault by two women Assange had met in Sweden during a business trip to the country in August 2010. Although the charges of rape were initially dropped, the case was later reopened and an appeals court has upheld the original accusations.
In December 2010, Assange surrendered to the police and was arrested in London, where he was been fighting a legal battle against being extradited to Sweden.
Assange’s arrest is just one of many problems for WikiLeaks and its founder. Since it started releasing secret embassy cables, the site itself has been the victim of DDoS attacks, and several companies, including Amazon, PayPal, and its DNS service provider, EveryDNS.net, have denied WikiLeaks service.
The full ruling can be found here.
[via Guardian]


http://mashable.com/2011/02/24/julia...ted-to-sweden/

[lxskllr]

Hopefully Sweden's courts aren't corrupt like USA's courts are. The charges are legitimate by Swedish law(as ridiculous as they are), and should be cleared up in court. It's pretty clear to me that they're politically motivated, likely due to pressure from the USA. Hopefully the truth comes out in court, and he gets cleared.