The U.K.'s High Court will rule on Wednesday whether or not to extradite controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden so he could be questioned by police about two women's allegations that he raped them.

Assange, 40, is fighting the extradition claiming it was politically motivated by the exposes of his whistleblowing website.

Assange was arrested in London in December on the strength of a European warrant. In February, a lower court ruled that Assange should be extradited so he can be interrogated by Swedish police regarding the rape allegations.

He appealed the ruling before the High Court in July. Assange is on bail and lives in a supporter's house in eastern England. He is required to wear an electronic ankle tag and observe a dusk-to-dawn curfew.

If the High Court upholds the lower court's ruling, Assange can still appeal before the U.K.'s Supreme Court, the highest legal authority in the country.

Lawyer Gareth Peirce leads Assange's legal team, which argued that the allegation of one of the women is invalid in English law and that the European arrest warrant was also invalid because no charges have been filed against him.

Assange has enraged the U.S. and other governments for leaking confidential diplomatic cables and war logs on Afghanistan and Iraq provided by an American soldier, who is now in jail in the U.S.