Assange’s extradition battle at its final stage

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, took his extradition battle to Britain’s Supreme Court yesterday, arguing that sending him to Sweden would violate a fundamental legal principle.

The two-day hearing is Assange’s last chance to persuade British judges to quash efforts to send him to Scandinavia, where he is wanted on sex crime allegations.

Assange was accused of rape, coercion and molestation following encounters with two Swedish women in Aug 2010, shortly after WikiLeaks published US government documents relating to the Afghan war.