After a week in detention for alleged sex offenses, Julian Assange was scheduled to appear in London on Tuesday.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange turned himself in to police in London on Tuesday and will remain in custody until December 14 unless extradited to Sweden, Sweden’s English-language newspaper The Local reports . Assange, who has been on the international radar since exposing hundreds of classified US government documents and simultaneously dodging a manhunt for alleged sex crimes against two Swedish women since August, said he would fight his extradition and the charges facing him. read more

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A Swiss bank freezes accounts belonging to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, as a warrant arrives in the UK for his extradition to Sweden.

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The father of three missing Michigan boys, held on $3 million bail and facing parental kidnapping charges, is fighting his extradition from Ohio, authorities said Wednesday.

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This article titled “David Blunkett voices regrets over Gary McKinnon and extradition treaty” was written by Afua Hirsch, for The Guardian on Tuesday 30th November 2010 23.40 UTC

David Blunkett said today that he knew about Gordon Brown’s attempt to appeal to Washington over the fate of Gary McKinnon and that he thought it had been a “really good idea”.

However, in a significant admission, Blunkett said, in hindsight, that the extradition treaty between the US and Britain – signed when he was home secretary in 2003 – could have been better.

Giving evidence to the Commons home affairs committee, Blunkett said: “The seven years since the extradition treaty have taught me one thing: that the theory of what we signed could have been improved.”

Blunkett told MPs that developments in cyber-crime had caused him to reflect on the fairness of allowing a UK citizen to be extradited for an offence affecting US computer systems that occurred in the UK. “[If we were] looking at a case like Gary McKinnon seven years ago and someone had put to me the possibility for someone to commit crime from one jurisdiction directly into the next, we would have reflected on that,” Blunkett said. “I think it’s really important that where the substantive nature of offences take place on our homeland, we deal with them as a domestic offence.”

Also giving evidence, McKinnon’s mother, Janis Sharp, said her son’s mental health was deteriorating as uncertainty remained over the outcome of his case, which started in March 2002. However, she expressed confidence that the government would keep its pre-election promises not to allow McKinnon to be extradited. She said that Nick Clegg, David Cameron, the attorney general Dominic Grieve and the climate change secretary Chris Huhne had all said that if they were elected they would ensure McKinnon stayed in Britain.

Sharp added: “I’m sure they wouldn’t want to use a vulnerable man to win votes in an election, so I’m hoping that their pre-election promises will be kept.”

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A French court orders the extradition of Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana to The Hague to face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.

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A Muslim arrested in the UK carried out bombings in India 17 years ago to “get revenge” on Hindus, his extradition hearing in London hears.

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A Thai court dismisses new charges against alleged Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout, clearing the way for his extradition to the US.

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