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A UK court has refused a US extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. What happens now?
In a ruling that was more than a decade in the making, a UK court has refused a US request that WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange be extradited to the United States to face 18 charges, including espionage.
Judge Vanessa Baraitser refused the request on the basis of Assange’s mental condition and risk of suicide.
In April 2010 WikiLeaks made international headlines when it published a classified US military video showing an Apache attack helicopter gunning down 12 civilians, including two Reuters journalists, on a street in Baghdad in 2007.
WikiLeaks then released hundreds of thousands of US military messages and cables in a leak that saw former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning jailed.
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