BREAKING: Swedish prosecutors will re-open a rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Swedish prosecutors will re-open a rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
"I have today taken the decision to re-open the preliminary investigation," said Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, on Monday. The U.S. also is seeking the extradition of Assange, 47, so he can face charges relating the release of hundreds of thousands of classified military documents provided by Chelsea Manning.
A police officer who heard the women's accounts decided there was reason to suspect they were victims of sex crimes and handed the case to a prosecutor.
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