Assange Loses Bid for Arrest Warrant to Be Lifted [View all]
Source: Newsweek Magazine
JULIAN ASSANGE STILL FACES ARREST IF HE LEAVES THE ECUADORIAN EMBASSY AFTER BID FOR WARRANT TO BE LIFTED FAILS
BY TOM PORTER ON 2/13/18 AT 10:21 AM
Updated| WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his bid to have a police arrest warrant lifted.
At a Tuesday hearing at London’s Westminster Magistrates Court, Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot dismissed arguments by Assange’s legal team against the arrest warrant, issued when Assange jumped bail in 2012.
Assange’s legal team argued that it was no longer in British interests to seek Assange’s arrest, after Swedish authorities dropped their request to question him over the rape allegations that U.K. police initially had detained him for. Arbuthnot described Assange as “a man who wants to impose his own terms on the course of justice, whether the course of justice is in this jurisdiction or Sweden.
“He appears to consider himself above the normal rules of law and wants justice only if it goes in his favor.”
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