Security News > 2022 > March > UK Supreme Court snubs Assange anti-extradition bid

Julian Assange has all but lost his fight against extradition from Britain to America after the UK Supreme Court said his case "Did not raise an arguable point of law."

Assange's fiancée Stella Moris described the Supreme Court rejection of her betrothed's legal efforts as "Corrupting," saying: "Julian was just doing his job, which was to publish the truth about wrongdoing. His loyalty is the same as that which all journalists should have: to the public. Not to the spy agencies of a foreign power."

These form another part of the case against Assange in America: the US says he placed its spies and diplomats' lives at risk by publishing the cables, something he has denied.

The ex-WikiLeaker was in this exact situation 10 years ago, when the Supreme Court described a previous legal bid to avoid extradition as being "Without merit" - lawyerspeak for "Not a sodding chance, mate."

At that time Assange was trying to avoid extradition over what he said were politically motivated charges of sexual assault in Sweden.

Over the past couple of years Assange has been fighting extradition from London to the US, almost wholly unsuccessfully.

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