LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has found a surprising ally — a little known United Nations panel that has decided he has been unfairly detained in Britain while seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual misconduct.
Swedish officials said Thursday the UN panel report concludes Assange has been a victim of an “arbitrary detention,” apparently because he has been unable to leave the embassy without fear of being immediately taken into custody by British police armed with a European arrest warrant.
First of all I don’t think it’s a detention.
[…] it’s not arbitrary, Bring said.
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
