Swedish government revoked an arrest warrant for the founder WikiLeaks short on Saturday. Rape allegations against him were not proven. However, Julian Assange, believed to be in Sweden, remain under suspicion in a separate case.
Stockholm prosecutors issued an arrest warrant on Friday, said Assange alleged perpetrators of rape and abuse in two separate cases. But chief prosecutor Eva Finne revoke the warrant within 24 hours. Finne believes that there is no reason to suspect that he had committed rape.
Karin Rosander, a spokeswoman for the Swedish Prosecution Authority, said Assange remains suspected of molestation, a less serious charge that would not lead to an arrest warrant. Molestation covers a wide of range of offenses under Swedish law, including inappropriate physical contact with another adult, and can result in fines or up to one year in prison.
Assange was in Sweden last week seeking legal protection for the leaked documents about U.S. military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan which published on web. Assange said that WikiLeaks is planning to release a new batch of 15,000 documents from the war in Afghanistan in recent weeks.
The Pentagon has demanded WikiLeaks return all documents and delete it from the Internet.
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