Julian Assange: Sweden files request for arrest over rape allegation

[nitpicker]

Source: The Guardian

Mon 20 May 2019 09.11 BST First published on Mon 20 May 2019 08.27 BST

The Swedish prosecutor leading an investigation into a rape allegation against Julian Assange has filed a request with a local court for him to be detained in absentia.

If granted, the court order would be the first step in a process to have the WikiLeaks founder extradited from the UK, where he is serving a 50-week sentence for skipping bail.
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“I request the district court to detain Assange in his absence, on probable cause suspected for rape,” the deputy chief prosecutor, Eva-Marie Persson, said in a statement on Monday.

She said she would issue a European arrest warrant for Assange to be surrendered to Sweden if the court decided to detain him.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/20/julian-assange-sweden-files-request-arrest-rape-allegation

[SunSeeker]

1. Good. nt

[DetlefK]

2. If the rape-allegations were just a hit-job to detain him and extradite him to the US...

...then why is Sweden reopening the case and competing against the extradition-request of the US???

It's almost as if the allegations weren't a hit-job after all.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Good point!

[erlewyne]

3. Seems no one is above the Law?

And the clock is still ticking. With Pelosi holding
and just waiting ... (which is a winner).