The Wire

A UN Panel has decided Julian Assange’s three-and-a-half year stay in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London amounts to arbitrary detention prompting his lawyers and supporters to call for the extradition warrant against him to be dropped. The Wikileaks founder has been holed up in the cramped office after the Swedish Government brought a warrant for questioning in a rape case. Mr Assange and supporters have maintained the extradition is unecessary and have grave concerns he will be extradited to the United States and charged for his role in leaking secret US government documents.