Assange Says He Will Turn Himself in if UN Rules Against Him
Last Updated: February 04, 2016
FILE - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, right, listens as Ecuador's Foreign Affairs Minister Ricardo Patino, second right, speaks, during a news conference at the Ecuadorian embassy in central London, Aug. 18, 2014.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will accept arrest Friday if a United Nations panel rules against him.
Assange has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on charges of rape.
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has been investigating Assange's claim that the rape case is a pretext that would allow Sweden to extradite him over to the United States, which wants to prosecute him for publishing classified information on theWikiLeaks website, and that his confinement in the embassy amounts to arbitrary detention.
Assange, who is Australian, published on WikiLeaks a number of leaked diplomatic cables and other sensitive documents that the United States considers classified information.
It was one of the largest information leaks in U.S. history.
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