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Why Julian Assange's extradition instance is taking such a long time

.ON MAY 20TH the High Court in Greater london ruled that Julian Assange must be actually given a hearing on a new beauty against his extradition to The United States. Mr Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks and an Australian national, has been actually fighting for greater than 13 years to remain in Britain. This most up-to-date beauty, through which he will contend that United States has not done sufficient to ensure his rights as an accused, is just one of the few legal methods he has actually left behind. If extradited, he is going to deal with 18 costs of espionage and also pc hacking: all together they carry a maximum paragraph of 175 years in prison, though United States has said he is likely to serve only 4 to six. Mr Assange's advocates contact him a "political prisoner" and say (without evidence) that the case versus him is "set up". What is he alleged to possess carried out?