Epress.am News from Armenia
The results of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing are in, and the news aren’t good for the Wikileaks founder: he has lost the case, and is to be extradited to Sweden in 10 days. Assange has seven days to appeal the verdict, Mashable reports.
Assange is accused of sexual assault by two women Assange had met in Sweden during a business trip to the country in August 2010. Although the charges of rape were initially dropped, the case was later reopened and an appeals court has upheld the original accusations.
In December 2010, Assange surrendered to the police and was arrested in London, where he was been fighting a legal battle against being extradited to Sweden.
Assange’s arrest is just one of many problems for WikiLeaks and its founder. Since it started releasing secret embassy cables, the site itself has been the victim of DDoS attacks, and several companies, including Amazon, PayPal, and its DNS service provider, EveryDNS.net, have denied WikiLeaks service.