Julian Assange, the 50-year-old founding father of Wikileaks, is a step nearer to being extradited after the U.S. authorities received an attraction in London’s Excessive Court docket.

Choose Timothy Holroyde stated Friday that the court docket “permits the attraction.”

Within the U.S., the Australian entrepreneur will face prison costs together with breaking a spying legislation and conspiring to hack authorities computer systems.

Holyrode stated the U.S. has assured Britain that Assange’s detention will meet sure circumstances.

U.S. authorities accuse Assange of 18 counts referring to Wikileaks’ launch of huge troves of confidential U.S. army information and diplomatic cables which they stated had put lives in peril.

The US was interesting towards a Jan. 4 ruling by a London District Choose that stated that Assange shouldn’t be extradited as a result of he would doubtless commit suicide in a U.S. jail.