US government’s appeal to extradite Julian Assange to be heard at UK High Court

Julian Assange, who is being detained in Belmarsh prison in London (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

The US government’s legal challenge over a judge’s decision not to extradite Julian Assange is to be heard by the UK High Court.

Assange, 50, is wanted in the US on allegations of a conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.