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<span class="date-display-single">Thu, 31/05/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/806">John Pilger</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>On May 30, Britain's Supreme Court turned down the final appeal of Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden. In an unprecedented move, the court gave the defence team of the WikiLeaks editor permission to “re-apply” to the court in two weeks' time.</p>
<p>On the eve of the judgement, Sweden's leading morning newspaper <em>Dagens Nyheter</em> interviewed investigative journalist <em><strong>John Pilger</strong></em>, who has closely followed the Assange case. The following is the complete text of the interview, of which only a fraction was published in Sweden.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51181" target="_blank">read more</a></p>