LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a renewed plea on Monday for Sweden and Britain to respect a United Nations panel ruling that said he was being arbitrarily detained.
“I call on UK and Sweden to do the right thing and restore my liberty,” Assange said in a statement, issued on the one-year anniversary of the ruling.
The 45-year-old founder of the secret-spilling website has been at the Ecuadoran embassy in London since 2012, having taken refuge to avoid being sent to Sweden where he faces a rape allegation that he denies.
He fears Sweden would extradite him to the United States over his website’s leaking of diplomatic cables and other classified documents.
Assange said Britain and Sweden were in breach of their international obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
— AFP
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