Swedish court upholds arrest warrant for Assange

By Johan Ahlander | Reuters

A Swedish court upheld on Wednesday an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has spent two years at Ecuadors London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault.


Swedish prosecutors want to question Assange over the allegations made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers.


Assange denies the allegations and has been fighting a legal battle against extradition since his arrest in Britain in Dec. 2010.


Assange says he fears Sweden could in turn extradite him to the United States to be tried for one of the largest leaks of classified information in U.S. history.


“All in all, the district court makes the assessment that the reasons for the arrest warrant offset the infringement and adverse effects the measure entails for Julian Assange,” District court judge Lena Egelin said.


“He should therefore continue to be wanted for arrest in his absence.”


Assanges lawyers have argued the arrest warrant should be repealed because it cannot be enforced while Assange is in the embassy and the Swedish prosecutor had not considered the possibility of interrogating him in London.


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British police say they have spent 6 million pounds ($10.28 million) from June 2012 until March this year on policing costs at the Ecuadorian embassy.


In an interview with Reuters last year, Assange said he would not leave the sanctuary of the embassy in London even if Sweden stops pursuing sexual assault claims against him because he feared arrest on the order of the United States.


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