High Court to rule on Julian Assange appeal

Julian Assange is about to learn his fate as to whether he will be extradited to the US. After five years of battling extradition to face 17 counts of espionage and a computer misuse charge for revealing hundreds of thousands of classified military documents. If the result goes his way the court will allow a further appeal in the High Court but he will most likely stay in London’s Belmarsh Prison. However, if the result goes against him, Mr Assange will almost immediately be escorted on a military plane to the US. If found guilty he would face a maximum term of 175 years.