{"id":5647,"date":"2011-12-05T12:18:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2011-12-05T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T18:18:49","slug":"assange-can-fight-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/assange-can-fight-extradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange can fight extradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to petition the UK Supreme Court in his fight against extradition to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>He lost a High Court battle last month to be extradited over alleged sex offences, which he denies.<\/p>\n<p>Judges refused Mr Assange permission to appeal directly to the Supreme Court &#8211; but said his case raised &#8220;a question of general public importance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He can now directly ask the Supreme Court to look at his case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-16027942\">The rest of the story, from the BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to petition the UK Supreme Court in his fight against extradition to Sweden. He lost a High Court battle last month to be extradited over alleged sex offences, which he denies. Judges refused Mr Assange permission to appeal directly to the Supreme Court &#8211; but said his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/assange-can-fight-extradition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Assange can fight extradition<\/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\/p5fhV1-1t5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647"}],"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=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}