WikiLeaks founder says in statement he expects instant return of passport after UN panel finds he has been ‘arbitrarily detained’Julian Assange will demand on Friday that Sweden and the UK lift any threat of arrest to allow him to walk free from Ecuadors embassy in London,after a United Nations panel found that his three-and-a-half year confinement at the embassy in London amounted to “arbitrary detention”.
Sweden’s foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday that the UN panel, which will publish its findings on Friday, and had decided in favour of the WikiLeaks founder and found that he was “arbitrarily detained”.
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Source: theguardian.com