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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given permission to appeal the decision to extradite him to the United States.
Washington wants to prosecute Assange over the release of 500,000 military documents related to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In December last year, a London court overturned a lower court ruling that barred Assange from being sent to the United States, citing the risk of suicide.
Assange’s lawyers later challenged the decision, arguing that the state’s highest court should make decisions “on the basis of points of law relating to general public importance.”
“The respondent’s request for confirmation of this point has been accepted,” Judges Ian Burnett and Timothy Holroyde said in a written decision.
The judges themselves have said they cannot give Assange the right to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
But Assange has the right to seek justice on that point in the highest court, which can then decide whether to hear the case.
“Julian has won,” said Stella Morris, his fiancée and mother of two young children.
“It is now up to the Supreme Court to decide whether to hear Assange’s appeal.”
Crowds gathered in central London to welcome the decision.rel
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