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

.ON MAY 20TH the High Court in Greater london concluded that Julian Assange need to be granted a hearing on a new allure versus his extradition to United States. Mr Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks and also an Australian national, has actually been actually fighting for greater than 13 years to stay in Britain. This latest beauty, in which he is going to contend that United States has actually refrained from doing good enough to ensure his legal rights as an offender, is one of the few legal avenues he has actually left behind. If extradited, he will certainly encounter 18 fees of espionage and also pc hacking: with each other they lug an optimal sentence of 175 years behind bars, though America has stated he is probably to provide merely 4 to 6. Mr Assange's promoters contact him a "political prisoner" and point out (without documentation) that the case versus him is "set up". What is he declared to have carried out?