WikiLeaks’s Assange Appeals U.K. Ruling on Sweden Extradition
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Julian Assange formally appealed a U.K. ruling that the Australia-born WikiLeaks founder should be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual molestation, his lawyer Mark Stephens said today.
The appeal, filed March 1 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London, seeks to overturn a Feb. 24 judgment in which District Judge Howard Riddle rejected defense claims that Assange won’t get a fair trial in Sweden and that the prosecutor behind the case is a “radical feminist.”