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Why Julian Assange's extradition case is actually taking such a long time

.ON MAY 20TH the High Court in Greater london concluded that Julian Assange should be actually given a hearing on a new allure versus his extradition to The United States. Mr Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks and an Australian nationwide, has actually been fighting for greater than thirteen years to continue to be in Britain. This most recent beauty, through which he will certainly argue that The United States has actually not done enough to guarantee his civil liberties as an accused, is just one of the few legal methods he has left. If extradited, he will certainly deal with 18 fees of reconnaissance and computer hacking: together they lug a the greatest paragraph of 175 years in prison, though United States has actually claimed he is likely to provide merely 4 to 6. Mr Assange's advocates call him a "political detainee" and also point out (without evidence) that the instance versus him is "trumped up". What is he alleged to possess done?

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