WikiLeaks founder criticizes UK for his ‘unlawful detention’

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been hold-up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, urges British and Swedish authorities to allow him walk free from the ‘arbitrary detention’.

Speaking via videoconferencing on Friday, Assange said his “detention without charge was unlawful” adding that the legal arguments given by Sweden and Britain against him were “flawed”.

Assange’s legal team has also urged the two countries to accept the finding of a UN panel. “We can ask the prosecutor for a review of the arrest warrant but we will first let the prosecutor have a chance to show that they respect the UN report,” Assange’s lawyer in Stockholm, Thomas Olsson said.

The Geneva-based UN working group has already stood in support of the WikiLeaks founder saying his “arbitrary detention” must end. “Assange was arbitrarily detained by the governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.”

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