Tag archive: extradition

A British judge ruled Thursday that WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden for allegations of sex crimes, reports the Associated Press. Assange's lawyers will reportedly challenge the ruling in the UK's High Court. They have seven days to file their appeal. Judge Howard Riddle seems fairly sure of his ruling, however. In a statement to the court, Riddle validated Swedish prosecutors' claims that… Read More

Three lawmakers say they'll demand that a senior UK official halts a British man's extradition to the United States to face trial for hacking into military computers. Gary McKinnon is charged with breaking into 97 computers belonging to NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense and several branches of the U.S. military soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He claims he was searching for evidence of UFOs. The… Read More

Hacker Gary McKinnon is facing extradition from the UK to the US for breaking into a number of US military networks – NASA, the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense. He’s exhausted a number of appeals, including the European Court of Human Rights, and is currently awaiting a decision by the Home Secretary on when the extradition process will begin. If he’s convicted in the US, he potentially faces decades… Read More