The British TS confirmed by a majority of five judges to two extradition to Sweden the founder of Wikileaks already dictated a trial judge in February last year and an appeals court in July. The judgment, read this morning in London, close the last court in the United Kingdom, although Assange lawyers have won 14 more days and the possibility of a last resort before it starts the countdown to delivery to the Swedish authorities .
The judges of the High Court rejected the main argument of the defense ofAssange, who denied the validity of the European arrest warrant issued by Sweden in December 2010 to consider the prosecution of Stockholm signing the’Euro-warrant’ is not an “authority law “, a term that encompasses European legislation. Judge Lord Phillips, author of the judgment, remember that elevenEU Member States agree that its prosecutors who are issued extradition orders,and denies that European regulations, contained in the UK by a 2003 law,requires a signature of a judge. The Court further recalls that the European system of extradition is based precisely on mutual recognition of court proceedings between EU members.