Sweden rejects UN conclusions on Assange ‘unlawful detention’

Sweden rejects UN conclusions on Assange ‘unlawful detention’
February 5, 2016 - 13:11 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Swedish government on Friday, Feb 5, rejected the conclusions of a United Nations panel report saying Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's stay in Ecuador's London embassy amounts to "unlawful detention", according to Reuters.

The Swedish government said that Assange had chosen, voluntarily, to stay at the Ecuadorian embassy where he has been since 2012.

"Swedish authorities have no control over his decision to stay there. Mr. Assange is free to leave the Embassy at any point," the government said in a statement replying to the UN panel.

Assange, 44, took refuge at the embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations, which he denies, that he committed rape in 2010.

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