Swedish prosecutor to drop Assange rape probe

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. File photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. File photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Published May 19, 2017

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Stockholm - Swedish prosecutors said on

Friday they would drop a preliminary investigation into an

allegation of rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on

Friday, bringing to an end a 7-year legal stand-off.

"Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny has today decided to

discontinue the preliminary investigation regarding suspected

rape concerning Julian Assange," the prosecutors office said in

a statement.

Assange, 45, has lived in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London

since 2012, after taking refuge there to avoid extradition to

Sweden over the allegation of rape, which he denies. 

Reuters

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