{"id":280125,"date":"2011-02-24T06:46:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T06:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/24\/judge-to-rule-on-wikileaks-founder-assanges-extradition\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T06:46:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T06:46:27","slug":"judge-to-rule-on-wikileaks-founder-assanges-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/24\/judge-to-rule-on-wikileaks-founder-assanges-extradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge to rule on WikiLeaks founder Assange&#8217;s extradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"64.4930979133\">  <!-- start feedback link --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/feedback link -->       <!-- Tracking values --><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!--startclickprintinclude-->   <!--endclickprintinclude--> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"42.4546695795\"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!-- CONTENT -->  <!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--===========CAPTION==========--><\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\">\n<p>A judge in Britain is expected to rule Thursday on whether Assange, an Australian, should be extradited to Sweden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--===========\/CAPTION=========--> <!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><b>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<li>Assange has not been charged with a crime<\/li>\n<li>Officials want to question him in connection with sexual misconduct allegations<\/li>\n<li>Lawyer believes Sweden will hand Assange over to the United States<\/li>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--> <!--startclickprintinclude--> <\/p>\n<p><b>London (CNN)<\/b> &#8212; A judge in Britain is expected to rule Thursday on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Assange has not been charged with a crime, but Swedish prosecutors want to question him in connection with sexual misconduct allegations related to separate incidents in August.<\/p>\n<p>Assange denies the accusations, and his attorneys are fighting his extradition on procedural and human-rights grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Assange&#8217;s attorney, Geoffrey Robertson, has argued that Assange would not receive a fair trial in Sweden. They argue that Swedish prosecutors have improperly leaked details of the case.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<p>Robertson said remarks attributed to Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt have created a &#8220;toxic atmosphere&#8221; for Assange, who he said is viewed as &#8220;public enemy number one&#8221; in Sweden. The prime minister suggested that Assange believed women&#8217;s rights were worthless, Robertson said in court.<\/p>\n<p>Assange&#8217;s website, WikiLeaks, has published tens of thousands of once-secret U.S. documents on subjects ranging from the war in Afghanistan to the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Assange&#8217;s lawyers have raised the possibility that Sweden would hand him over to the United States if Britain extradites him to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Clare Montgomery, representing Sweden, has dismissed that claim.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Andrew Carey contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintinclude--><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n<!-- \/cnn_strybtmcntnt --><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/cnn_strycntnt --><!-- \/cnn_strycntntrgt --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/cnn_world\/~3\/2Atng4LqQL8\/index.html\" title=\"Judge to rule on WikiLeaks founder Assange's extradition\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judge to rule on WikiLeaks founder Assange&#8217;s extradition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A judge in Britain is expected to rule Thursday on whether Assange, an Australian, should be extradited to Sweden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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