.ON MAY 20TH the High Judge in London ruled that Julian Assange need to be approved a hearing on a new appeal against his extradition to United States. Mr Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks and also an Australian national, has been fighting for much more than thirteen years to remain in Britain. This latest beauty, through which he will argue that The United States has not done enough to assure his civil liberties as a defendant, is just one of the few legal pathways he has actually left behind. If extradited, he will certainly deal with 18 fees of espionage and computer hacking: together they bring a maximum sentence of 175 years behind bars, though United States has claimed he is actually likely to serve just 4 to six. Mr Assange's supporters call him a "political captive" and claim (without evidence) that the situation against him is actually "set up". What is he declared to have performed?