{"id":5455,"date":"2011-11-02T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2011-11-02T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:25:48","slug":"julian-assange-may-be-extradited-to-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/julian-assange-may-be-extradited-to-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange may be extradited to Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations, but said Wednesday he will now consider whether to take his protracted fight to Britain\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n<p>High Court appeal Judges John Thomas and Duncan Ousely rejected Assange\u2019s claims that it would be unfair and unlawful to send him to Scandinavia to be questioned over the alleged rape of one woman and the molestation of another in Stockholm last year. The 40-year-old has denied wrongdoing, and insists the case is politically motivated by those opposed to the work of his secret-spilling organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be considering our next steps in the days ahead,\u201d Assange said &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-to-learn-fate-of-appeal-against-extradition-to-sweden\/2011\/11\/02\/gIQAhQbteM_story.html?hpid=z3?wpisrc=al_comboPNE\">Read the rest here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations, but said Wednesday he will now consider whether to take his protracted fight to Britain\u2019s highest court. High Court appeal Judges John Thomas and Duncan Ousely rejected Assange\u2019s claims that it would be unfair and unlawful to send him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/julian-assange-may-be-extradited-to-sweden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Julian Assange may be extradited to Sweden<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1pZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}