Department of State: The United States has no bearing on the issue of extradition of Assange to Sweden – RIA Novosti

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 – RIA Novosti, Grigory Dubovitsky United States Government did not comment on the decision of the working of the United Nations in the case of a group of Julian Assange and are not connected with probable extradition of WikiLeaks founder from the UK to Sweden, said State Department spokesman.

“Request for Sweden to extradite Mr. Assange – is a matter of the United States is not involved in the extradition case of Great Britain, and the governments of Sweden “-. said the representative office in response to a request by RIA Novosti about the possible actions of the USA

Assange earlier filed a complaint with the UN working group on Sweden. and the United Kingdom in connection with the decision on his detention in September 2014. Swedish Foreign Ministry on Thursday said that the decision of the UN Working Group referred to the illegality of the deprivation of freedom of Assange

In Sweden, the investigation against Assange began in summer 2010 at the request of two women -. 25 and 35 years old. They told the police that he allegedly suffered from sexual harassment, Julian Assange, who in August of the same year was in Sweden to participate in the conference and for his lectures. Assange himself has denied any involvement in the commission of sexual crimes, insisting that all the contacts were consensual, and women have applied for it out of revenge and influenced by police. Protecting WikiLeaks founder insists that all charges against their client are registered and politicized because Assange its activities, in particular the publication of private diplomatic correspondences, incurred the wrath of many countries, especially the United States. He fears that if extradited to Sweden to eventually achieve his expulsion was the United States.

Julian Assange became famous in 2006 with the work on the site WikiLeaks, founded for the publication of secret documents. In 2010, the website to publicize secret video of US military, which could be seen as a US helicopter after an attack in Baghdad in 2007, killed at least 18 civilians. In 2010, the site also began publishing 250,000 US diplomatic documents. Since 2012, Assange refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London. In June this year, a British court ruled to extradite Assange to Sweden for questioning on charges of sexual crimes.