WikiLeaks 'waiting for official confirmation' after BBC
report UN ruled in Assange's favor
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time: 4 Feb, 2016 09:38Edited time: 4 Feb, 2016 09:46
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WikiLeaks
said it is “waiting for official confirmation” after a BBC report claimed a UN
panel has ruled the arbitrary detention of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian
embassy in London is illegal.
Assange
earlier said in case of a favorable decision he expects he expects “the
immediate return” of his passport and the termination of further attempts to
arrest him.
The
UN, however, neither confirmed nor denied to RT that the panel has ruled in
favor of Assange’s illegal detention.
The
WikiLeaks founder filed a complaint against Sweden and Britain to the UN
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in September 2014.
BBC is reporting claim that UN has found for Assange We are waiting official confirmation justice4assange.com/UN-Working-Gro…
Assange
also said that he would accept his fate and allow the UK police to arrest him
if the UN panel investigating his case ruled against him.
According
to Assange’s lawyer Thomas Olsson, Assange has been sheltered in the
Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012, after having been granted asylum
by the Central American country.
A
spokesman for the British police said they would arrest Assange if he leaves
the embassy.
"The warrant is still in place. If he leaves the embassy
we will make every effort to arrest him," the spokesman said,
as cited by Reuters.
Here's the membership of the UN panel which has reportedly ruled in Assange's favour re: his "detention"
In
Sweden, Assange is wanted for questioning by the authorities regarding
allegations of sexual assault against two women in 2010, which he has always
denied. Assange fears that if he goes to Sweden he will eventually have to face
a tribunal in the US for publishing classified documents through Wikileaks.
Sweden has refused to guarantee that this would not happen.
In
August, Swedish prosecutors said they would drop the investigation into two
allegations of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion as the statute
of limitations had run out. One outstanding allegation of rape remains, which
Assange will still be questioned about.
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