A British court ruled that Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the United States for espionage unless US authorities guarantee he will not face the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the publication of classified US documents. 
Two Supreme Court judges have said they will grant Julian Assange a fresh appeal unless US authorities give further assurances within three weeks about what will happen to him.
The decision means the trial, which has lasted more than a decade, will continue – and Assange will remain in London's Belmarsh maximum security prison, where he has spent the past five years.
Judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson said the US should guarantee Assange, who is Australian, that he would be afforded "the same First Amendment protections as a citizen of the United States and that the death penalty would not be imposed ".
