Julian Assange agrees to remain in Belmarsh jail

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to remain in custody ahead of his US extradition hearing next month, a court heard today (thurs). Alleged cyber criminal Assange, 47, faces extradition to the United States over the leak of huge amounts of classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010. Assange was dramatically arrested and dragged from the Ecuadorean Embassy on April 11 after the country withdrew its diplomatic protection. Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno later cited Assange’s ‘despotic’ behaviour and accused him…