Swedish prosecutor issues formal request to hold Julian Assange on rape suspicion

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The request is the first step towards seeking the Australian whistleblower's extradition to Sweden.

, currently imprisoned in Britain, on suspicion of rape - a first step towards seeking his extradition to Sweden.

Detaining someone in their absence is a standard part of Swedish legal procedure if a suspect is outside the country or cannot be located.The request follows last week's reopening of a 2010 rape investigation, and Ms Persson added that once the court had granted the request, she would then ask British authorities to transfer Mr Assange to Sweden.

The Swedish investigation concerns events which took place in 2010 when a Swedish woman accused Mr Assange of rape, after meeting him at a WikiLeaks conference in Stockholm.Swedish authorities closed the investigation in 2017, when Sweden's then director of public prosecutions Marianne Ny argued that since Mr Assange could not be reached, having taken up residence in Ecuador's embassy, it was not possible to proceed with the probe.

 

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