JUST IN: UK High Court Approves US Government’s Legal Bid to Extradite WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
The US government has won its High Court bid to extradite Julian Assange.
On Friday, a court in the United Kingdom ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be sent to the United States to face trial.
Last year, a US grand jury indicted Assange on 18 charges, 17 of which fall under the Espionage Act.
Assange, the infamous whistleblower who founded WikiLeaks, is wanted in America over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information following the outlet’s public disclosure of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, including Hillary’s notorious emails.
After the charges were filed, UK Judge Vanessa Baraitser denied the extradition request by the US government,
