{"id":138790,"date":"2011-11-02T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=138790"},"modified":"2011-11-02T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T11:02:35","slug":"wikileaks-julian-assange-to-be-extradited-to-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/02\/wikileaks-julian-assange-to-be-extradited-to-sweden.html","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks&#8217; Julian Assange to be Extradited to Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has failed in his appeal against extradition from the UK to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-15549985\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">BBC<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Two judges at the High Court in London decided that a previous ruling in favour of extradition must be upheld.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish authorities want him to answer accusations of raping one woman and sexually molesting and coercing another in Stockholm last year.<\/p>\n<p>Assange&#8217;s lawyers say they will appeal at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>They have 14 days to bring the case to the highest court in the land, on the grounds that it raises issues of general public importance.<\/p>\n<p>However, Assange&#8217;s legal team will first need to seek permission from the High Court to launch the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>In February, District Judge Howard Riddle ruled that Assange should be extradited to face investigation following a hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Australian denies the allegations and says they are politically motivated.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has failed in his appeal against extradition from the UK to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}