{"id":5722,"date":"2015-08-14T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2015-08-14T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:50:21","slug":"sweden-drops-assange-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/sweden-drops-assange-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden drops Assange inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wikileaks-founder-Assange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5140\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wikileaks-founder-Assange.jpg\" alt=\"Wikileaks founder Assange\" width=\"303\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wikileaks-founder-Assange.jpg 303w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wikileaks-founder-Assange-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a>Swedish prosecutors will drop their investigation into sexual assault allegations against Julian Assange on Thursday because of the statutes of limitation, in a report in the BBC.<br \/>\nThe Wikileaks founder still faces the more serious allegation of rape.<br \/>\nBut prosecutors have run out of time to investigate Mr Assange for sexual assault because they have not succeeded in questioning him.<br \/>\nHe denies all allegations and has said they are part of a smear campaign.<br \/>\nThe Australian journalist and activist sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden.<br \/>\nTime limit<br \/>\nUnder Swedish law, charges cannot be laid without interviewing the suspect. Prosecutors had until 13 August to question Mr Assange about the ongoing going case.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/sweden-drops-assange-inquiry\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish prosecutors will drop their investigation into sexual assault allegations against Julian Assange on Thursday because of the statutes of limitation, in a report in the BBC. The Wikileaks founder still faces the more serious allegation of rape. But prosecutors have run out of time to investigate Mr Assange for sexual assault because they have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}