A Swedish prosecutor said on Tuesday she still aims to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London over a rape allegation in Sweden, despite a UN report condemning Stockholm for his "arbitrary detention".
"Concerning the report that was issued last week, I would like to state that it does not change my earlier assessments in the investigation," Marianne Ny said in a statement.
She said she was "currently working on a renewed request to interview Julian Assange at Ecuador's embassy in London".
The Australian-born Assange sought refuge in the embassy in June 2012 after Swedish authorities issued a European warrant for his arrest over a 2005 rape allegation. Assange has refused to travel to Stockholm for questioning amid fears Sweden will extradite him to the United States over WikiLeaks' release of 500,000 secret military files on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Assange's confinement to the embassy amounted to an arbitrary detention by Sweden and Britain.