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After five years of battling extradition to the United States to face 17 counts of espionage and a computer misuse charge for revealing hundreds of thousands of classified military documents in 2010, Mr Assange will hear his fate at 9.30pm AEDT when two British High Court judges hand down a decision.
This could be the 52-year-old’s final day in the UK and hundreds of supporters are expected outside the Royal Courts of Justice to hear the decision.
If the result goes Mr Assange’s way, the court will allow a further appeal to a full court of the High Court and he will most likely remain in Belmarsh prison.
If it doesn’t, Mr Assange will be on a US military plane to Virginia almost immediately and he will be held in a maximum security remand centre until trial.
Mr Assange faces a maximum term of 175 years if found guilty on all charges, however in repeated court sessions US lawyers have insisted the usual sentence would be around five years. The...