A senior Swedish prosecutor on Monday quizzed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy here since 2012, six years after he was accused of rape by a woman in Stockholm.
The 45-year-old Australian national has been living in the Embassy for more than four years after he was granted political asylum by Ecuador amid fears he will be extradited to the US and questioned over the release of 500,000 secret military files on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by his controversial website.
Ingrid Isgren, Sweden’s deputy chief prosecutor, arrived at the small central london embassy at 9.30am, accompanied by another woman, where she was met by dozens of photographers and film crews. She made no comment to waiting reporters.