Supreme court: Julian Assange may be extradited – update

The British supreme court has decided that WikiLeaks frontman Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden. Assange may again appeal to appeal, but the court must take the case treatment want to take.

Two judges of the supreme court have ruled that Assange extradited may be. Assange may be in ten days on the plane to Sweden, but the WikiLeaks frontman has announced that he is to the supreme court in the appeal will go. He needs to make plausible that it is a matter of ‘public importance’. If the court the request for appeal rejects Assange almost immediately be extradited.

According to the verdict of the judges is the European uitleveringsverzoek ‘proportionate’ and ‘legitimate’. The proposed defence, which the lawyers of Assange argue that the uitleveringsverzoek is unlawful, was also rejected. The judges believe that here they have no legal control over, and that the judges in Sweden about this, can make a judgment.

In a short statement on the steps of the court did Assange know that his options will be. He also referred to the website Swedenversusassange.com.

The forty years of Assange in december 2010 in the United Kingdom, held at the request of Sweden. He would in the Scandinavian country have been guilty of rape and sexual violence, but he is up to now not yet formally indicted. Assange denied the allegations and maintains that the indictments politically motivated. His lawyers call the Swedish uitleveringsverzoek ‘unfair and unlawful’.

In February, the court ruled that the Australian to Sweden extradited could be, after which Assange appealed went. In the past eleven months had the WikiLeaks frontman is every day to report at a police station and for 10 hours at home in the evening. In addition, it carries Assange an ankle bracelet.

Update 13:00: Reaction to Assange on verdict added.