Swedish Prosecutors Ask Court to Detain Assange in Rape Case
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Swedish prosecutors asked a court to detain Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to allow for his extradition to Sweden for questioning over rape allegations once he has served a 50-week sentence in the U.K. for skipping bail.
Prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson argued at Uppsala District Court north of Stockholm that Assange is a flight risk and should be detained in his absence on probable cause of suspected rape in a case based on nine-year-old accusations. The case was reopened last month after Assange was ejected from the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he had sought refuge.