A judge in England has authorised the family of the seriously-ill boy to move him from a Spanish hospital to the Czech capital after a week-long saga in which the parents were jailed in Spain before being freed amid a flood of public sympathy.
"Everything is ready for him to be transferred" to Prague, the family's lawyer Juan Isidro Fernandez told reporters.
"We think it will all happen between now and Monday at the latest," he said at the Maternity and Children's Hospital in the southern Spanish city of Malaga where Ashya has spent the week.
They were arrested under an extradition warrant for fear that Ashya's health was in danger, but British prosecutors later dropped the case, deciding that his parents had looked after him properly.
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Ashya recently underwent surgery for a brain tumour in southern England. His parents now want him to undergo an alternative treatment called proton beam therapy at the specialist centre in Prague.
"The proton therapy treatment will start as soon as possible. All that remain are the bureaucratic procedures concerning how he will go there," the lawyer said.
Ashya, whose condition is now stable, was placed under the legal custody of an English court after his parents were arrested. A judge lifted that ruling yesterday, clearing the way for Ashya's parents to move him from Spain.
"He is very happy. He has toys and is playing with his mother and father and we want the best for him," Fernandez said today.