UPDATE: Swedish prosecutors have decided
to end the rape investigation into Julian Assange and lift the
Europe-wide arrest warrant against him, but UK police say they will
still arrest him.
In a statement on its
website, the Swedish prosecution authority said that the “Director of
Public Prosecution, Ms Marianne Ny, has today decided to discontinue the
investigation regarding suspected rape (lesser degree) by Julian
Assange”.
“With the consideration that all options of moving the investigation forward are now exhausted it appears that – in light of the views expressed by the Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen) on the proportionality of remanding someone in absentia – it is no longer proportional to maintain the decision to remand Julian Assange in his absence and maintain the European arrest warrant,” Ny wrote in her notification to Stockholm District Court.
“I have therefore today lifted the decision to remand Julian Assange in his absence,” she added.
Assange tweeted an image from his official Twitter account after the decision was announced:
https://www.thelocal.se/20170519/breaking-sweden-lifts-arrest-warrant-against-julian-assange-and-ends-investigation“With the consideration that all options of moving the investigation forward are now exhausted it appears that – in light of the views expressed by the Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen) on the proportionality of remanding someone in absentia – it is no longer proportional to maintain the decision to remand Julian Assange in his absence and maintain the European arrest warrant,” Ny wrote in her notification to Stockholm District Court.
“I have therefore today lifted the decision to remand Julian Assange in his absence,” she added.
Assange tweeted an image from his official Twitter account after the decision was announced:
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) May 19, 2017
LIVE: Outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London as Sweden drops rape charges against Julian Assange https://t.co/0JMzr9Uqsv pic.twitter.com/bGlAxnBSft
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