Assange wins permission to appeal extradition to US

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was on Monday given permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against a decision to extradite him to the United States.

The High Court in London approved a bid by the publisher’s lawyers to take the case to the country’s highest court on “points of law of general public importance”.

Washington wants to put the 50-year-old Australian on trial in connection with WikiLeaks’ publication of 500,000 secret military files relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The High Court in London in December overturned a lower court’s ruling not to send him to the United States on the grounds he would be a suicide risk.

Lawyers for Assange then challenged the decision, arguing that the country’s highest court should rule on “points of law of general public importance”.

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