Swedish Court Issues Arrest Warrant For WikiLeaks' Assange In Rape Case

November 18, 2010 at 3:55 pm PT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces charges of rape and sexual molestation in Sweden, is the subject of an international search, after a Swedish court issued an arrest warrant today. Assange has yet to be questioned as part of the investigation, although he denies all of the charges. According to his lawyer, Bjoern Hurtig, “We haven’t been able to settle on a date for the interrogation and apparently the prosecutor ran out of patience.”

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