Sweden reopens rape case against Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks

The Swedish prosecutor 's office announced Monday that it was reopening the 2010 indictment case for alleged violation of WikiKeaks' founder, Julian Assange, imprisoned in the United Kingdom after being a refugee for seven years at the Embbady of Ecuador in London.

"Today, I decided to reopen the investigation", Eva-Marie Persson, Deputy Prosecutor, announced that he would ask Assange "to be handed over" to Sweden "by means of a European arrest warrant". "There is still reason to suspect Assange of committing a violation ", he added.

Assange was arrested on April 11 by British police at the Embbady of Ecuador and I was expecting a possible extradition to the United States, who is looking for espionage from war secrets revealed by Wikileaks.

The charges against him in Sweden, on the other hand, They had expired and there was no expectation that the country would join the request for seizure of the hacker and the activist to bring him to justice.

"The previous decision [tomada en mayo de 2017] termination of the investigation was not based on the difficulties of the evidence, but around the issues that have blocked the investigation ", Persson said. "Now that [Assange] left the Ecuadorian Embbady, ​​the conditions of the case have changed and I believe that these conditions allow once again to advance in the case, "he added.

Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor of WikiLeaks, was the first environmental member of jailed hackers in London to react to the announcement of the reopening of the case, baduring that it will allow Assange to "clean his name".

Hrafnsson also said in a statement that he "political pressure" in Sweden to reopen the case against Assange, who, after being arrested on April 11 at the Embbady of Ecuador in London, meets a 50-week prison sentence for violating his parole in 2012.

Assange has been locked up at the Embbady of Ecuador, where he received political support from President Rafael Correa, in 2012 precisely to avoid being extradited to Sweden.

The 47-year-old AustralianSince then, he argues that the alleged rape trial against him is a pretext for extraditing him to the United States., who seeks it by filtrations WikiLeaks has created clbadified material obtained by former US intelligence badyst Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning.

But the new president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, has made the decision to limit political support and expelling Assange from the embbady in London, after which he was arrested on April 11 by the British authorities.