{"id":16910,"date":"2017-05-19T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=16910"},"modified":"2017-05-19T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:46:27","slug":"sweden-drops-rape-charges-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/sweden-drops-rape-charges-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden drops rape charges against Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>London Metropolitan Police could still arrest Assange for a 2012 warrant against him for skipping bail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Swedish prosecutors have dropped rape charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChief Prosecutor Marianne Ny has today decided to shut down the preliminary investigation regarding suspected rape involving Julian Assange,\u201d the prosecutors\u2019 office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The decision potentially allows the Australian, 45, to leave the Ecuadorean Embassy after being in there for the past 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>The WikiLeaks founder had lost a court battle in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over the rape charges. He then sought asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers have repeatedly maintained that Assange will not leave the embassy without assurances that he will not face extradition to the US over possible espionage charges, regarding WikiLeaks\u2019 publishing activities.<\/p>\n<p>The problems haven\u2019t yet completely subsided for Assange, as the London police has said that it would still arrest the Australian\u00a0over skipping bail when he sought asylum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestminster Magistrates&#8217; Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Julian Assange following him failing to surrender to the court on June 29, 2012,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Metropolitan Police Service is obliged to execute that warrant should he leave the Embassy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor and her deputy, Ingrid Isgren, would say more about their reasons for dropping charges on Assange at a press conference later on Friday.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]London Metropolitan Police could still arrest Assange for a 2012 warrant against him for skipping bail. Swedish prosecutors have dropped rape charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday. \u201cChief Prosecutor Marianne Ny has today decided to shut down the preliminary investigation regarding suspected rape involving Julian Assange,\u201d the prosecutors\u2019 office said in a statement. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1511],"tags":[4009,4005,4008,104,4007,4006],"yst_prominent_words":[3749,3963,3991,3996,4002,4004,3968,3997,3988,3989,3998,3995,4000,3993,4003,3994,3990,4001,3999,3992],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/05\/julian.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16910"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16910"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=16910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->