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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arbitrarily Detained by Sweden and the UK, UN Panel Finds

UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–5 February 2016 – The founder of the WikiLeaks website, which published confidential diplomatic information, has been arbitrarily detained by Sweden and the United Kingdom since his arrest in London in December 2010, as a result of the legal action against him by both Governments, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said today.

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