WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday that he would allow British officials to arrest him if a United Nations panel rules against him in a case against the United Kingdom and Sweden about his detention in London.
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However, he has spent the last three years inside London’s Ecuadorian embassy, claiming to be a victim of political persecution.
He noted that if the state parties are “found the have acted unlawfully”, he expects his passport to be returned and all attempts to arrest him ceased.
He remains holed up in the embassy to avoid possible extradition to Sweden, where he faces an allegation of rape.
The UN has been investigating whether the Australian has been illegally detained, and is due to hand down its findings within the next day.
First to Sweden the place he’s dealing with sexual assault allegations, which he has all the time denied.
The choice of the United Nations investigation into the Julian Assange case is ready to be revealed and will order the discharge of Wikileaks founder on February 5.
Assange submitted a complaint against Sweden and the United Kingdom to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in September 2014.
“The only protection he has…is to stay in the confines of the embassy; the only way for Mr Assange to enjoy his right to asylum is to be in detention”, the submission said.
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Lennart Jansson, the Charge d’Affaires at the Swedish embassy in Canberra, declined to comment on the announcement.
