WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks to have escaped extradition to the U.S. to face espionage charges following the dramatic ruling of a British judge on Monday.
The judge — Vanessa Baraister — rejected Washington's request to extradite Assange, who enraged the U.S. after WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011, bringing to light war reported crimes and human rights abuses committed by American forces.
Although Baraister largely dismissed the defence's case that charges against Assange were politically-motivated and that he wouldn't face a fair trial in the U.S., in the end she claimed that it was Assange's mental health that was the central issue.
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