Swedish prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson filed a formal request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be detained in absentia over rape allegations.
“I request the district court to detain Assange in his absence, on probable cause suspected for rape,” Persson, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, said in a statement Monday morning.
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