STOCKHOLM, May 23 (NNN-Prensa Latina) A court of the Swedish city of Uppsala announced the celebration Tuesday of a judicial process to start on June 3, in order to analyze an arrest request against the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange.
Swedish assistant judge Eva-Marie Persson requested the arrest of the famous Australian-born cyberactivist and the latter issuing of an arrest order at European contiental level, to take Assange to trial for probable sexual crimes, which would imply his transfer from the United Kingdom to Sweden.
Persson said the imprisonment of Assange on April 11 this year, after the Ecuadorian government removed the condition of political refugee granted seven years ago, he deserves a close scrutiny and the reopening of the case, so his possible extradition to Sweden might be effective.
Assange denies his involvement in such events and the current editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson, said recently that Sweden received considerable political pressure to reopen the investigation.
‘It should be remembered that this case was dropped in 2010, when the prosecutor determined that no crime had been committed, and then reopened at the time WikiLeaks was getting ready to publish the archives on the Iraq war,’ Hrafnsson said in a statement.
According to the text, the manipulation was present at all times, because Sweden wanted to withdraw the arrest warrant in 2013, but the British government insisted that it should remain in force.
Hrafnsson said that during the time he remained asylum in the Ecuadorian diplomatic legation, Assange was always willing to answer questions from the Swedish prosecutor’s office, which shelved the case in 2017.
In addition to its possible extradition to this nation, the Australian cyberactivist faces another similar request from the United States, which wants to take Assange to trial for conspiracy to commit hacking, a crime carrying up to five years in prison.
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