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Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal

Posted by Unknown on from the us-enhanced-interrogators-filled-with-glee dept.

judgecorp writes "Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has lost his appeal in the British High Court against extradition to Sweden on charges of rape. His team has 14 days to appeal to the Supreme Court — but would have to show a 'wider issue of public importance' to justify such an appeal. Meanwhile, WikiLeaks has suspended publication because it says a 'banking blockade' has cut off its sources of funding."

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  1. The CIA and MI6 are wimping out by concealment · · Score: 5, Funny

    If he'd pulled this trick during the cold war, he would have had a mysterious "car accident" in the country late at night with lots of empty bottles and a young male prostitute in the car with him. That .45 caliber wound to his head would have obviously been from the steering wheel, of course.

    Now they just set him up on a phony charge for not requesting sexual relations via the Swedish government-approved triplicate form. What's next, claiming he killed someone with secondhand smoke, or arresting him for going over his personal carbon cap?

  2. How to take care of Assange by geoffrobinson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Put Mexican drug cartel info on wikileaks.

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