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          Assange Says He Will Turn Himself in if UN Rules Against Him

   by VOA News

   WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will accept arrest Friday if a
   United Nations panel rules against him.

   Assange has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012
   to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on
   charges of rape.

   The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has been investigating
   Assange's claim that the rape case is a pretext that would allow Sweden
   to extradite him over to the United States, which wants to prosecute
   him for publishing classified information on the WikiLeaks website, and
   that his confinement in the embassy amounts to arbitrary detention.

   Assange, who is Australian, published on WikiLeaks a number of leaked
   diplomatic cables and other sensitive documents that the United States
   considers classified information. It was one of the largest information
   leaks in U.S. history.
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