Newsdeck: Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition By Reuters reuters
* Says no decision made yet whether to indict Assange* Britain must decide on extradition to U.S. or Sweden Deputy Chief Prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson told a news conference she would continue a preliminary investigation that was dropped in 2017 without charges being brought because Assange had taken refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
The decision to reopen the investigation poses the question of whether Assange will be moved to Sweden or to the United States. The statute of limitation for rape in Sweden is 10 years – a deadline which would be reached in mid-August next year for the alleged incident involving Assange, leaving prosecutors pressed for time should they decide to file any formal charge.
Assange’s supporters cast him as a dissident facing the wrath of a superpower over one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history.Responding to the reopening of the Swedish investigation, WikiLeaks said it would give Assange a chance to clear his name. “How that will happen now, I don’t know. He has his hands full with, for him, much more important issues, namely avoiding being extradited to the U.S.”
“In the event of a conflict between a European Arrest Warrant and a request for extradition from the US, UK authorities will decide on the order of priority,” a Swedish prosecutor’s statement said.
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