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UN Panel Rules in Favour of Wikileaks Founder Assange's Complaint of Arbitrary Detention- BBC
LONDON, 4 Feb (Reuters) -
A United Nations panel has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been "arbitrarily detained", the BBC reported on Thursday.
No comment was immediately available from the United Nations in Geneva, where the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has been considering a request by Assange for a ruling.
Assange, 44, is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape in 2010, which he denies. He took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in June 2012 to avoid extradition.
Sweden's Response;
Swedish Foreign Ministry Confirms U.N. Report Says Assange Arbitrarily Detained
STOCKHOLM, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Sweden's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that a United Nations panel had ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had been "arbitrarily detained".
"Their working group has made the judgment that Assange has been arbitrarily detained in contravention of international commitments," a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry said.
The comment confirms a report by the BBC earlier on Thursday.
Assange, 44, took refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. Swedish prosecutors want to question him over allegations, which he denies, that he committed rape in 2010.
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