Sweden has reopened an investigation into a rape allegation made against the WikiLeaks founder in 2010.
Swedish prosecutors have reopened a case investigating a rape allegation made in 2010 against Julian Assange, creating further uncertainty around what the WikiLeaks founder's future might hold.
While the case in Sweden was dropped in 2017, after the statute of limitations on some of the allegations against Assange ran out, the WikiLeaks founder remained in the embassy, residing there for a total of seven years, to avoid being extradited to the U.S. to face prosecution over WikiLeaks' release in 2010 of sensitive government data from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
The new development creates further uncertainty around what Assange's fate might be, with questions raised around which case against the WikiLeaks founder will take precedence. In Sweden, Assange faces accusations of rape and other sexual offences against two women following a WikiLeaks conference in Stockholm in 2010. Assange has consistently denied the allegations.
In a statement WikiLeaks said that Sweden's reopening of the rape case against Assange would give the organization's founder"a chance to clear his name."
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