Julian Assange’s fight for freedom is far from over

The decision to block Julian Assange’s extradition to the US is unlikely to make him a free man anytime soon. Assange, who has spent the last decade either in a UK prison or stuck in Ecuador’s embassy in London, won an important legal fight Monday when a judge ruled that he shouldn’t be sent to the US to face criminal charges.

While his legal team prepares for a bail hearing Wednesday, prosecutors said they will fight his release as they appeal the decision, dragging the process through the British courts for months or years.

This “is not the end of the story,” said Jasvinder Nakhwal, an extradition lawyer at Peters & Peters in London who wasn’t involved in Assange’s hearing.