Thursday, May 24, 2012

Second day of extradition hearing for Assange.


Extradition showdown: UK Supreme Court to rule on Assange (click here)

Published: 23 May, 2012, 18:08

Julian Assange’s legal battle in the UK may be close to its end. Next week the country’s Supreme Court will decide whether the scandal-stirring whistleblower is to be extradited to Sweden, where he faces several sex crime allegations.
A panel of seven Supreme Court judges will make their decision next Wednesday, May 30. 
Assange’s lawyers are calling on judges to block the extradition. They say that the initial European warrant that put Assange under house arrest in Britain over 500 days ago was “invalid and unenforceable” and that Swedish prosecutor had no authority to issue it....