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 "The Supreme Court grants leave to appeal in the matter regarding
the arrest," the court said in statement.
The 43-year-old Australian has been stuck inside Ecuador's London
embassy since June 2012 to avoid a British extradition to Sweden,
which wants to question him on allegations of sexual assault, which
he denies.
Assange says he fears that if Britain extradited him to Sweden he
would then be extradited to the United States where he could be
tried for one of the largest information leaks in U.S. history.
(Reporting by Daniel Dickson and Bjorn Rundstrom)
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