They demand the arrest of Julian Assange for rape

The Swedish prosecutor's office on Monday filed a warrant for alleged rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The complaint was filed in May 2010. The incident occurred in Stockholm..

"I ask the court to arrest Assange in absentia for suspicion of rape"Swedish Deputy Attorney Eva Marie Persson announced in a statement a week after the reopening of the Wikileaks founder's investigation, arrested on April 11 at the Ecuadorian Embbady in London.

Stopping a person in absentia is a standard mechanism of the Swedish legal system if the suspect is out of the country or can not be found. "If the court decides to arrest him, I will issue a European arrest warrant"Persson added.

Assange, imprisoned for seven years at the Embbady of Ecuador in London to prevent the British authorities from extraditing him to Sweden, He was arrested on 11 April after the withdrawal of his support by the Ecuadorian authorities.