Mr Assange last year lodged an appeal in the United Kingdom’s High Court after the UK government signed an order authorising his extradition to the US. This week, the court rejected his appeal in a three-page written decision from Justice Jonathan Swift. Julian’s wife Stella Assange remains optimistic that her husband will not be extradited to the United States “where he faces charges that could result in him spending the rest of his life in a maximum security prison for publishing true information that revealed war crimes committed by the US government.”