{"id":29662,"date":"2015-03-12T00:50:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T04:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/assange-appeal-to-be-heard-by-supreme-court.php"},"modified":"2015-03-12T00:50:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T04:50:29","slug":"assange-appeal-to-be-heard-by-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/julian-assange-2\/assange-appeal-to-be-heard-by-supreme-court.php","title":{"rendered":"Assange appeal to be heard by Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>  Sweden's Supreme Court. Photo: TT<\/p>\n<p>  Sweden's Supreme Court has  agreed to hear Julian Assange's appeal to have the European  arrest warrant against him lifted, as the Wikileaks founder  continues to fight extradition to the Nordic nation following  rape and sex assault allegations.<\/p>\n<p>    Julian Assange is wanted for questioning in Stockholm following    sex allegations made by two different Swedish women in 2010,    claims which he denies.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    Sweden's Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it would    consider the Australian's appeal against the decisions of two    lower Swedish courts, which ruled that an arrest warrant    against him should stand, paving the way for police to question    him in Stockholm.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    In a statement it said that it had reached the decision in the    light of the \"conduct of investigations and the principle of    proportionality\".  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    He has not left the embassy for two years and according to    Samuelson \"he has not taken one step outdoors. He has not even    leaned out of the window\".  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20150311\/assange-appeal-to-be-heard-by-supreme-court\/RK=0\/RS=Y__UBmjBnH0reD1vFgEK0zLQeEc-\" title=\"Assange appeal to be heard by Supreme Court\">Assange appeal to be heard by Supreme Court<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sweden's Supreme Court. Photo: TT Sweden's Supreme Court has agreed to hear Julian Assange's appeal to have the European arrest warrant against him lifted, as the Wikileaks founder continues to fight extradition to the Nordic nation following rape and sex assault allegations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julian-assange-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}