Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he may soon be freed from his four-year-long exile in a London embassy following Thursday’s Brexit vote. Assange says the UK’s decision to leave the European Union has the unintended side-effect of voiding the European Arrest Warrant (EAQ) issued by Sweden. Rt.com reports: Assange is wanted for questioning over his alleged involvement in a 2010 sexual assault, a charge he has repeatedly denied. #Brexit means the scrapping of the European Arrest Warrant used as the excuse to detain Assange without charge in the UK for 5.5 years — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 24, 2016 Intending to arrest Assange and deport him to Sweden, British police were continually stationed outside the embassy from June 2012 until October 2015 at a cost of over £10million ($20mn) to British taxpayers . The Metropolitan Police said that although the round-the-clock surveillance was being brought to a close, its officers would make “every effort” to arrest Assange to fulfil the EAW should he leave the embassy. The 44 year old fears that after being transferred to Sweden to face the charges, he will then be extradited to the US, where he is wanted on espionage charges over classified US documents and [...]
