Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation

DPA, 13TH MAY, 2019 - After a two-year hiatus, Sweden announced on Monday that it will re-open a preliminary rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that was dropped in 2017.

Eva-marie Persson, deputy chief prosecutor, said that she “shortly” will file an application at the district court in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, that Assange “be detained in his absence suspected on probable cause for an allegation of rape from August 2010.”

The alleged crime occurred in the municipality of Enkoping, which is part of the Uppsala court’s jurisdiction.

She was also planning to file a European arrest warrant requesting Assange’s extradition to Sweden after he has served a sentence in Britain for skipping bail.