London, 19/05/2017. Today, the Swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation (carried on without charge) and revoked the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In the early afternoon, members of Veteran for Peace UK and supporters of WikiLeaks gathered outside Downing Street to protest against the MET Police Service decision not to drop the arrest warrant for Julian Assange who did not surrender to the British court (offence punishable by up to a year in...
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London, 19/05/2017. Today, the Swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation (carried on without charge) and revoked the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In the early afternoon, members of Veteran for Peace UK and supporters of WikiLeaks gathered outside Downing Street to protest against the MET Police Service decision not to drop the arrest warrant for Julian Assange who did not surrender to the British court (offence punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine) following the Swedish rape investigation. Furthermore, it is still not clear whether the UK has received and extradition request from the United States, where Julian Assange is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret US military and diplomatic documents. In February 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated he has being unlawfully held by Sweden and the UK and that his detention should be brought to an end immediately. Julian Assange lives in the Ecuadorian Embassy where the 16th August 2012 the (former) President of Ecuador Rafael Correa and his Government granted the Diplomatic Asylum to the founder of WikiLeaks against the extradition request from Sweden made in 2012 for three allegations of sexual assault and one of rape.

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