Julian Assange may be extradited to Sweden

Supreme Court of British

Julian Assange: Extradition to Sweden is well before
Julian Assange has failed in his request for a review of the extradition decision in the UK to Sweden. The judge rejected a last request of the attorneys-founder of Wikileaks.

London - The Supreme Court has ruled Britain: Julian Assange's appeal against his extradition to Sweden will not be reopened. Thus, the Wikileaks founders are delivered. The Swedish prosecutor wants to question Assange, because to him there will be accused of sexual harassment and rape.

Assange's lawyers had asked the Supreme Court that the case is heard in the light of further documents again. The court had the defense in the court reaches the end of May given the opportunity to make this request.
The reason for the delay: Sex-defense had objected that the verdict of the judges at many places on the Vienna Convention applies. This was at the hearing were not previously considered.

Observers had expected the judgment of the Supreme Court. Had the judge decided otherwise, it would have the system of the European arrest warrant called into question. It is based on the principle that European courts may rely on the justice of the partner countries - even without the allegations examined. This works only if there is no doubt about the trustworthiness of a judicial authority in another EU country.

Julian Assange has announced several weeks ago that he was in doubt before the European Court of Human Rights pull. A suspensive effect would such an action is not. Following his extradition to Sweden Assange will probably be remanded in custody. The prosecution will question him and then decide whether to set at liberty or against him will be charged.

Extradition to the United States



In the UK Assange was more than a year under house arrest - he is obliged to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and must report daily to the local police station.

With the unveiling platform WikiLeaks, which Assange co-founded, that the present case has to do absolutely nothing at first. The charges relate to allegations in Sweden Assange and events in Sweden in 2010. Two women accuse him apparently against their will to have had unprotected sex with them.
In the United States is reportedly working on for over a year at a not yet public accusation against Assange, in which it is to go to Wikileaks published information from U.S. sources, in particular the so-called diplomat end Peschen from internal networks of the U.S. State Department and the Iraq - Afghanistan and protocols. Assange to prosecute because of these publications is legal in the U.S. but not simple: the publication of secret information in itself is not illegal there. If we can However Assange prove that he has persuaded an informant to steal and passing secret information that one could accuse him of conspiracy, betrayal of secrets.

Whether Sweden extradite Assange in the case of an indictment in the United States there could be is unclear - the actual application would then probably decide a Swedish court. It is clear that the UK Assange in the United States would be able to deliver if there would exist an indictment against him. In the United States vs. Causation. Assange does the failure of the Australian before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, therefore, nothing.