Wednesday, 22. June 2016
Topic: STRANGE - on June 22, 2016 at 9:20:00 PM CEST
Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy
Ecuador has received a formal request from the Swedish authorities to interview Julian Assange, inside its London embassy, in a potential breakthrough to the long-running saga. The WikiLeaks founder, 44, is wanted for questioning over a 2010 rape allegation in Sweden, which he has always denied. He has been living inside Ecuador’s UK mission for four years in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, saying he fears he would then be transferred to the US to face political charges for orchestrating leaks of diplomatic cables.
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