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

.ON MAY 20TH the High Judge in London concluded that Julian Assange must be actually approved a hearing on a brand-new charm versus his extradition to America. Mr Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks as well as an Australian nationwide, has been fighting for much more than thirteen years to continue to be in Britain. This newest appeal, through which he is going to argue that United States has actually not done good enough to assure his legal rights as an offender, is one of the few lawful pathways he has left behind. If extradited, he will definitely deal with 18 charges of espionage and also computer system hacking: with each other they lug a the greatest sentence of 175 years in prison, though America has actually mentioned he is actually likely to provide simply four to six. Mr Assange's followers phone him a "political detainee" and state (without proof) that the situation against him is "rigged". What is he declared to have carried out?