A United Nations panel has found that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s refuge inside Ecuador’s embassy in London amounts to arbitrary detention, Swedish authorities said on Thursday.
A United Nations panel has found that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s refuge inside Ecuador’s embassy in London amounts to arbitrary detention, Swedish authorities said on Thursday.
According to CNN, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may at last leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been holed up for three and a half years. But the Met Police says that even though he may leave with the support of a U.N. working group, he is still likely to be arrested in Britain on sex crime charges for alleged crimes in Sweden that date back several years.
The Wall Street Journal informs that the U.N. panel ruling comes as the latest twist in the activist’s long-running attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations that he raped one woman and molested another during a trip in 2010
“Should the U.N. announce...that I have lost my case against the United Kingdom and Sweden I shall exit the embassy at noon Friday to accept arrest by British police as there is no meaningful prospect of further appeal,” Julian Assange said in statement published earlier via the WikiLeaks Twitter account.
