A British judge has rejected the latest attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to fight extradition to the United States to face spying charges. High Court justice Jonathan Swift said a new appeal would simply "re-run" arguments that Assange's lawyers had already made and lost. Assange is seeking to halt extradition by obtaining a new court hearing on parts of his case that were dismissed by the first judge. Assange's wife, Stella Assange, said the WikiLeaks founder would make a new appeal attempt at a High Court hearing on Tuesday. Sweden dropped the sex crimes investigations in November 2019 because so much time had elapsed, but British judges have kept Assange in prison pending the outcome of the U.S. extradition case.

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Persons: Julian Assange, Jonathan Swift, Assange, Assange wouldn't, Swift, Assange's, Stella Assange, Julian Organizations: British, WikiLeaks, European, of Human, Twitter, Ecuadorian Embassy Locations: United States, U.S, British, Australia, Britain's, London's, Ecuadorian, London, Sweden