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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Loses High Court Bid To Block Extradition To Sweden Over Sex Crime Allegations (And Appears To Have Lost His Celebrity Friends Too...) -- Daily Mail
* His lawyers had asked judges to rule his extradition would be 'unfair and unlawful'
* No sign of his celebrity supporters including Jemima Khan, Tony Benn and Bianca Jagger
* Assange could now appeal the decision at the Supreme Court
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has lost his High Court bid to block extradition to Sweden where he faces sex crime allegations.
Two judges rejected claims that extraditing the 40-year-old Australian would be 'unfair and unlawful'.
The Swedish authorities want Assange, a 40-year-old Australian, to answer accusations of 'raping' one woman and 'sexually molesting and coercing' another in Stockholm in August last year.
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My Comment: Julian Assange's options are now running out .... my prediction .... he will be in a Swedish jail this time next year and Wikileaks (as we know it) will be gone.
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