UN report urges to end Assange's 'arbitrary detention'
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E-mail Xinhua, February 5, 2016
A latest report issued by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been "arbitrarily detained" and the detention should be ended.
The report, adopted on Dec. 4, 2015 and made public on Friday by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said Assange should be afforded the right to compensation.
The Working Group believes that Assange's stay in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London "has become a state of an arbitrary deprivation of liberty," the report said.
"The detention was arbitrary because he was held in isolation during the first stage of detention and because of the lack of diligence by the Swedish Prosecutor in its investigations, which resulted in the lengthy detention of Mr. Assange," it added.
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