Julian Assange to find out if appeal against extradition to US can proceed

File photo dated 13/01/20 of Julian Assange (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Julian Assange is due to find out whether he can take an appeal against the decision to extradite him to the United States to the Supreme Court.

Assange, 50, is wanted in America over an alleged conspiracy following WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.