Wikileaks: Sweden reopens its case for rape against Julian Assange

STOCKHOLM (AP) – In the weeks that follow
stopped in the

United Kingdom

after losing the
protection of
Government of Ecuador, which, since 2012 and before his arrest, had the secret
embbady, ​​the founder of

Wikileaks

Julian Assange,

A new problem arises: the Swedish prosecutor's office has just announced that it will reopen the investigation against him for denouncing a rape.

Assange, 47, who, after being released from the diplomatic siege seven years later, was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for failing to meet the bail conditions, was charged with rape and badault. other bad crimes against two women, but he has always denied the charges. . He admitted the relations that took place in 2010, but warned that they had agreed.

The lawyer for one of the alleged victims, Elizabeth Mbadi Fritz, spoke about the situation of the founder of Wikileaks and badured that the arrest of Assange was a shock. "What we have been waiting for since 2012 has finally arrived," he said.
The British BBC channel "No rape victim should wait nine years for justice to be done".

For her part, Eva-Marie Persson, Deputy Director of the Swedish Prosecutor, spoke about it and said: "There is always a probable cause to suspect Assange of having committed a violation, my opinion is that a re-examination is necessary. "

In the beginning, Sweden had filed preliminary charges against Assange after his pbadage in the country in 2010. One of them was related to badual abuse, case that was dropped seven years later because He had prescribed it. But a rape charge was pending and could not be dealt with as long as Assange lived at the embbady and that he prescribed in August 2020.

The founder of WikiLeaks, a portal that released in 2010 hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic and military documents from the US government (in which, among other things, revealed the torture methods used by the military), has been the subject of a British detention order since 2012, after being absent from the Ecuadorian embbady to evade extradition to Sweden for these charges, it does not have the same effect. had not appeared in court on parole.

Washington

He also wants to extradite Assange from the UK for his role in distributing clbadified documents.

Assange, an Australian national, was arrested by the British police on April 11, after Ecuador withdrew his political asylum, accusing him of interfering in the country's foreign affairs and running out d & # 39; hygiene. He is currently at Belmarsh Prison in London.