The imprisoned Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is not allowed to go to the highest British court in the legal dispute over his extradition to the USA. According to the British news agency PA, the Supreme Court in London announced on Monday that it had rejected the application by Assange’s lawyers because there were insufficient legal grounds. A possible extradition to the USA is now more likely. The US judiciary wants to put Assange on trial for allegations of espionage. The native Australian faces up to 175 years in prison. He is accused of having stolen and published secret material from US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with whistleblower Chelsea Manning, thus endangering the lives of US informants.
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