Judge rules Assange must be extradited

FEB. 24, 2011

Judge rules Assange must be extradited

Britain will honor Sweden’s request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face sex-crime allegations, a British judge rules. Judge Howard Riddle says Swedish prosecutors’ request that Assange be forced to return to Stockholm was valid and dismisses arguments that extradition would violate the 39-year-old Australian’s human rights