.ON MAY 20TH the High Court in London ruled that Julian Assange should be granted a hearing on a brand-new appeal versus his extradition to America. Mr Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks and also an Australian national, has actually been actually fighting for greater than thirteen years to continue to be in Britain. This latest charm, in which he will argue that America has actually refrained sufficient to guarantee his rights as a defendant, is just one of minority legal opportunities he has actually left. If extradited, he is going to encounter 18 costs of espionage as well as personal computer hacking: all together they bring a the greatest paragraph of 175 years behind bars, though America has claimed he is actually very likely to serve just 4 to 6. Mr Assange's promoters contact him a "political prisoner" and also point out (without documentation) that the instance versus him is actually "trumped up". What is he alleged to have performed?