Swedish prosecutor arrives to question Assange for 2nd day at Ecuador's UK embassy

Published 15/11/2016, 08:27 pm
Swedish prosecutor arrives to question Assange for 2nd day at Ecuador's UK embassy

LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Swedish Chief Prosecutor Ingrid Isgren arrived at Ecuador's London embassy on Tuesday to question Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in connection with a rape investigation, a Reuters photographer at the scene said.

Assange, who has repeatedly denied the rape allegation, was questioned by prosecutors on Monday at the embassy. who enraged Washington by publishing a flood of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, fled to the embassy in 2012 for fear that, if extradited to Sweden, he could be sent on to the United States and face a long prison term there for leaking U.S. secrets.

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