Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, announced at a news conference Monday prosecutors would reopen an inquiry into a rape allegation against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange.
Details: Persson said in the decision published after the news conference the courts in Sweden have, on several occasions, during the preliminary investigation considered the case after Assange entered London's Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012. On each occasion, they found there exists "probable cause" for him "to be suspected of rape, less serious crime" concerning the allegation, dating from 2010.
The big picture: The U.S. is seeking to extradite the 47-year-old Australian. A U.K. court sentenced Assange to 50 weeks in jail this month for skipping bail by seeking asylum in the embassy. He was avoiding extradition to Sweden for the rape case at the time.
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