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		</div><p>Julian Assange has been ordered to face a full extradition hearing next year, as his legal team branded charges in the US “an outrageous and full-frontal assault” on journalistic rights.</p>
<p>The WikiLeaks founder is fighting against being sent to the States to face 18 charges that include allegations of conspiring to hack into a classified Pentagon computer.</p>
<p>The US extradition case was formally opened at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, a day after an extradition request was signed off by Home Secretary Sajid Javid.</p>
<p>Assange, with a scraggly white beard, told the court that “175 years of my life is effectively at stake” as he sought to defend his organisation.</p>
<p>Mark Summers QC, representing Assange, said there are a “multiplicity of profound issues” with the extradition case.</p>
<p><em>“We say it represents an outrageous and full-frontal assault on journalistic rights,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot ordered for a full extradition hearing expected to last five days to begin on February 25.</p>
<p>The brief hearing was also told that Assange has a date at the Court of Appeal, with his legal team later explaining he is to appeal against his sentence for a bail breach.</p>
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