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UN panel rules Assange's detention illegal: Swedish ministry

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AFP Stockholm
A UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that Julian Assange's confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London amounts to illegal detention, Sweden's foreign ministry said today.

"We can only note that the working panel has come to another conclusion than Swedish judicial authorities," a foreign ministry spokeswoman told AFP, a day before the panel was to publish its report.
 

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First Published: Feb 04 2016 | 8:57 PM IST

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