Founder of Wiki-leaks and ardent supporter of all things transparent, Julian Assange has failed in his bid to have his extradition to Sweden, overturned.
In Sweden he faces charges of sexual assault, allegedly to two women.
Assange has not played his next move, but is believed to be mounting an appeal in the British Supreme court to avoid having to be sent to Sweden.
In the past, Assange has claimed that the charges, which only emerged (coincidentally so) in the aftermath of Cablegate where Assange release hundreds of thousands of official cables from the United States, as being politically motivated.
The results of these cables have had some governments, some more than others, backpedalling more than a cyclist with a puncture or two on a steep hill.
While others, including Australia have kept most Wiki-leaks discussion hush hush.
So what will this mean for Assange? It means one of two things, he will either launch an appeal (again) and extend his time in the courts, or will be extradited to Sweden in the next ten days.
Wiki-leaks has continued to update its followers with information as well as supplying the full High court judgement, which would explain (in legal jargon of course) why the appeal was dismissed.
Interested? You can find it at this link: http://www.swedenversusassange.com/
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