BREAKING: a British court has opened the door for Julian Assange to be extradited to US, overturning a lower court ruling.
to be extradited to the US by overturning a lower court ruling that found the WikiLeaks founder's mental health was too fragile to withstand the American criminal justice system.A lower court judge earlier this year refused an American request to extradite Assange to the US to face spying charges over WikiLeaks' publication of secret military documents a decade ago.Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, on May 19, 2017.
Appealing against that decision at the High Court in London, an attorney for the US government denied that Assange's mental health was too fragile to withstand the US judicial system.