UN panel calls on UK and Sweden to end Julian Assange’s ‘deprivation of liberty’

UN panel calls on UK and Sweden to end Julian Assange’s ‘deprivation of liberty’

UN working group says WikiLeaks founder should be offered compensation for being confined to Ecuadorian embassy.

The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained by the UK and Sweden for more than five years and should be released immediately with compensation, according to a United Nations report.