LONDON — The full extradition hearing to decide whether Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be sent to the United States to face accusations including spying charges will take place in February next year, a London court ruled on Friday. Assange, 47, faces 18 counts in the U.S. including conspiring to hack government computers and violating an espionage law. He was dragged from the embassy on April 11 and jailed for 50 weeks for skipping bail. He told the court that Assange, who had been too ill to attend the previous hearing in May, was receiving health care. Judge Emma Arbuthnot said the full extradition case would be heard in the week starting Feb. 25 next year.

Source: National Post June 14, 2019 13:52 UTC