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Julian Assange Extradition: WikiLeaks Founder To Seek Ruling From Supreme Court

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First Posted: 05/12/11 06:36 GMT Updated: 05/12/11 11:12 GMT   PA

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The High Court today paved the way for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to pursue his case against extradition to Sweden in the Supreme Court.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had returned to court to launch his latest bid to block extradition to Sweden where he faces sex crime allegations.

Assange asked two High Court judges in London to certify that his case raises a question of general public importance.

He will now go to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, to seek a final ruling.

The judges, Sir John Thomas and Mr Justice Ouseley, recently dismissed his application for judicial review.

They rejected his lawyers' claims that extraditing the 40-year-old Australian would be "unfair and unlawful".

The Swedish authorities want him to answer accusations of "raping" one woman and "sexually molesting and coercing" another in Stockholm in August last year.

Assange, whose WikiLeaks website published a mass of leaked diplomatic cables which embarrassed several governments and international businesses, denies the allegations and says they are politically motivated.

The High Court upheld a ruling by District Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south east London in February that the computer expert should be extradited to face investigation.

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The High Court today paved the way for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to pursue his case against extradition to Sweden in the Supreme Court. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had returned to court...
The High Court today paved the way for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to pursue his case against extradition to Sweden in the Supreme Court. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had returned to court...
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novelist2000
veritas non olet
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06:09 AM on 12/07/2011
Didn't the people in the US have a right to the texts of these cables? After all, they were made with US taxpayer funds, so they should have a right to see what is done with their money.

I wish, wikileaks had existed when the corruption in the German Kohl regime was depriving people of their rights with the help of the French and the Americans. Some called it system elf or re-unification criminality, facilitated by the Bundestag - that would have made real good reading on wikileaks and maybe it would have helped to get some justice.
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Bayleaf
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12:50 PM on 12/06/2011
There is a very simple way to deal with this matter, if the "germ" is too cowardley to stand up and face the music. Deport him as Persona non Grata, send him back to Australia, where he apparently comes from. He has caused enough embarrasment,hassle and havoc in this country, the legal bills which we will probably have to pay; will be astronomical. What is the man scared of, the legal systems in Scandinavia are even less toothy than ours. Sentences of six months jail at the weekend and out during the week, with your own key to the establishment!
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chicagobean
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04:53 AM on 12/06/2011
#108 In the series HOW TO SHUT THIS GUY UP. If you are interested in how these legal proceedings are effecting our access to the truth, visit wikileaks.org. You will find a video clip that is simply priceless.
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louistruj
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02:49 AM on 12/06/2011
Is Julian Assange a fugitive? If not then extradition is not warranted as that is the purpose of extradition or do I stand to be corrected?
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billstrahan
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09:40 PM on 12/05/2011
Assange has no authority. He has never stood for election to the position (not that I'm saying people wouldn't vote for him if such an election existed) that he has put himself in.

Even those properly elected or publicly appointed are slowly learning (the hard way in the main) that in today's increasingly open society (something I believe Assange could be accused of championing) that 'tall poppies' are prone to getting cut down to size - a la Strauss-Kahn affair. Last I heard, DSK wasn't even challenging the establishment!

Given the JA has made his trade in exposing things others wish to keep secret, it's more than a little disappointing that one so wise and self righteous should allow such an open goal to be presented.

But of course, no surprise.
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saksr1of3
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09:36 PM on 12/05/2011
All B.S. claims against Julian Assange for him sharing with the world just a small piece of how corrupt governments and their leaders are. Who do you trust now-a-day, not politicians that's for sure. They have shown their true colors and their all greedy and out only to help themselves! I don't trust a one of them. I believe a great change is in the makings for our future so hang on for the ride, it's going get a bit rough for a while before it's get's better.
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billstrahan
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07:01 AM on 12/06/2011
er... not JA anyway!
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CamelPaw357
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08:05 PM on 12/05/2011
His crimes are particularly heinous and have directly led to the deaths of Americans abroad. Blood Justice is demanded for him and Bradley Manning.
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halingei
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10:35 AM on 12/06/2011
What's that got to do with his possible extradition?
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novelist2000
veritas non olet
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06:17 AM on 12/07/2011
Well that's the point. The Americans have stitched up his extradition from Sweden so Assange can be tried in the US, then hanged or rendered.

What costs American lives is their general policies, e.g. their plans for a pipeline. Afghanistan is not about bringing democracy to illitterate fanatical tent dwellers, it's about the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline (Unocal, Chevron) from the Caspian oil and gas fields to the port of Karachi. That has cost more American lives than wikileaks and the American public pays for that, when that should be funded by the oil industry, who is the benefittor. Of course, soldiers will stay in Afghanistan, as long as there is something flowing through the pipeline.
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Mark Clemons
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07:22 PM on 12/05/2011
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crestmia
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05:36 PM on 12/05/2011
A set-up by the US for sure. Raping...how can a gay guy do that?
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Syllogizer
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05:40 PM on 12/05/2011
He's not gay. On the contrary: his own words "I like women" were quoted often enough in the press, it should be obvious.
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akcincinnati
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05:06 PM on 12/05/2011
Very misleading headline. The supreme court mentioned is the high court of England. You make it sound as if it were the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Topdown1
That's what she said!
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05:09 PM on 12/05/2011
Exactly what I was going to post.
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Syllogizer
Barely Left of Pobedonostsev
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05:41 PM on 12/05/2011
Since the article says "extradition to Sweden" it makes it sound like it is Sweden's Supreme Court. But no, it really is the UK Supreme Court. This is especially misleading to American readers who might not notice the 'uk' in the domain name for the link;)

Even more puzzling, though, is their mention of the same judges previously denying judicial review. So why is it being granted now?
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MolliBlum
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05:10 PM on 12/05/2011
Well, the fact that the headline appears on the UK page maybe gives a clue.
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akcincinnati
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05:28 PM on 12/05/2011
But it is being listed by HPAOL, here in the U.S. The HP headline is the one that we read and it is misleading.
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Westdude
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05:35 PM on 12/05/2011
"Well, the fact that the headline appears on the UK page maybe gives a clue"
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Clue and clarity are two different things.
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05:02 PM on 12/05/2011
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AgainstAnimalAbuse
The end justifies the means
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04:58 PM on 12/05/2011
When governments are afraid of this guy, whom I admire for his guts, you know they do not want you to find out the truth. If people everywhere realized how governments everywhere lie to you instead of representing you, they would be questioning their own government and what it does in their name. Wake up people, if you do not question your very own government, who will?
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Aidan Taylor
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06:35 PM on 12/05/2011
And you presumably see no need for any information being kept secret for any reason. I love it when people talk glibly about 'being lied to by Governments' as if they 'know the REAL truth'. The whole point of a Government is to govern. Sometimes, that requires secrecy. Only the truly naive or the extremely stupid think that everything that Governments need to do can be made 'transparent' and revealed to us all. Why do you think every developed country in the world feels the need to have a Secret Service?
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AgainstAnimalAbuse
The end justifies the means
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08:10 PM on 12/05/2011
To oppress their own people, that's why.
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Kenneth Neugent
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04:42 PM on 12/05/2011
I really am suspect of these charges. I do not agree with his work when national security is involved. A price has been put on his head. Governments from different Countries want this man bad. He has gone too far in the past and put a soldier in complete isolation.
The world is somewhat crooked with secret deals. He was just bold enough to put it out in public.
I do wish he would go back to Sweden and answer these charges these women have made.
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Topdown1
That's what she said!
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05:12 PM on 12/05/2011
If he does go back to face these charges, he will most likely be railroaded right into prison. From there maybe to an early grave. This isn't about anything having to do with rape.
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MolliBlum
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05:22 PM on 12/05/2011
Quite -- but they will hand him over to the US first.
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Westdude
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05:44 PM on 12/05/2011
The case parallels the 9/11 intelligent design.
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jwosr98
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04:35 PM on 12/05/2011
The damage Assasnge caused is what is unfair and unlawfulhe should be in prison.
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flyingfortresb17
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04:15 PM on 12/05/2011
Julian Assange should be extradited as soon as possible and allow the Government Lawyers of Sweden to present their cases to the courts in a timely manner. If there is evidence enough to have shown what he has been accused of let the case be actually presented to a court for criminal trial. But at least allow the Swedish Government the chance to present their evidence.
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jonesengr
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04:34 PM on 12/05/2011
First I do not like this man in the least. Second, he probably is guilty of something along the lines of the charges.........................The law however, in this case is He said and she said and as often as not he has to prove he did not do it vs the opposite of allowing the charges to be proven accurate. The information he released publically served no worthwhile purpose other than to harm a few people who were doing their jobs...................It is interesting that all this surrounds him at last.......................I wonder why he felt he has to release the papers.
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