COPENHAGEN — Swedish authorities on Monday issued a request for a detention order against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is now jailed in Britain, a Swedish prosecutor said. Persson said Monday that British authorities will decide any conflict between a European arrest warrant and U.S. extradition request for Assange. On May 13, Swedish prosecutors reopened a preliminary investigation against Assange, who visited Sweden in 2010, after two Swedish women said they were the victims of sex crimes committed by Assange. The statute of limitations in the rape case expires in August next year. “However, in my view, the Swedish case can proceed concurrently with the proceedings in the U.K.,” Persson said in a statement.

Source: National Post May 20, 2019 07:24 UTC