BREAKING: Sweden reopens rape investigation into Julian Assange as US tries to extradite him for hacking
Swedish prosecutors opened a sexual assault investigation into Assange in August 2010, and in 2012 the UK ruled the he should be extradited to Sweden to face questioning. He is accused of rape and molestation.
Assange has consistently denied the allegations, and in June 2012 moved into Ecuador's embassy in London as a political asylum seeker. Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation into Assange in August 2015, saying that they could not pursue the case while he was in the Ecuadorean embassy. US prosecutors requested Assange's extradition last month Ecuador revoked his asylum, and Assange was
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