Assange asks revision arrest warrant

Assange asks revision arrest warrant

World February 22, 2016 14:21

stockholm - Julian Assange's lawyers have asked a Swedish court to review an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder. This follows a ruling by a UN working group found that his stay in the Embassy of Ecuador in London,, amounts to arbitrary detention '.

,, We believe that there are some new circumstances have arisen which there is a reason to reconsider the earlier decision, '' said Thomas Olsson, one of the lawyers Assange Monday.

However, the Swedish prosecutor had earlier this month already know that the opinion of the Working Group on the case against Assange will not change his situation.

Assange has been staying since 2012 in the embassy because he fears Sweden would extradite him to the United States for leaking secret documents. In Sweden a charge of rape against Assange.

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