Stockholm: Swedish prosecutors are reopening an inquiry into rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, told a news conference in Stockholm that "there is still a probable cause to suspect that Assange committed a rape." She added, "It is my assessment that a new questioning of Assange is required."
Swedish prosecutors filed preliminary charges against Assange after he visited the country in 2010.
Seven years later, a case of alleged sexual misconduct was dropped when the statute of limitations expired.
That left a rape allegation, which couldn't be pursued while Assange was living at the embassy.
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The statute of limitations on that case expires in August 2020.
