.ON MAY 20TH the High Court in London concluded that Julian Assange must be actually granted a hearing on a brand-new beauty versus his extradition to America. Mr Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks and an Australian national, has been fighting for more than 13 years to stay in Britain. This latest appeal, in which he will dispute that America has not done enough to assure his rights as an accused, is among the few legal opportunities he has actually left behind. If extradited, he will definitely encounter 18 costs of espionage and also personal computer hacking: together they bring an optimal sentence of 175 years in prison, though America has said he is likely to offer only 4 to 6. Mr Assange's advocates call him a "political prisoner" as well as point out (without documentation) that the case against him is actually "trumped up". What is he declared to possess done?