On Friday, the fate of Julian Assange will be decided

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday morning will announce its decision in favor of Julian Assandzh. The Council concluded that his detention was not based on sufficient grounds and violated international laws. This became known from officials in Geneva. However, this decision does not oblige the local authorities to take any action.

On the eve of the decision, Assandzh himself announced that he was tired of being in the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​where he had sought asylum back in 2012. He wrote on Twitter that he would leave the embassy on Friday, and if the UN renders a decision against him, he will surrender to the authorities. If the decision is in his favor, which is what happened, he will require the British authorities to return his passport and release him from the country.


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Assange is hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK in connection with the accusations against him by the Swedish authorities. In 2010, he was arrested in the UK on charges of sexual harassment and rape. In 2012, having been released on bail, and having received news of the approval of his extradition from the United Kingdom, he took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​where he remains to this day.

Two years later, in 2014, he appealed to the UN Human Rights Council with a request to acknowledge that he was being detained without sufficient reason, because he could not leave the embassy without the risk of being arrested.

British police kept their constables at the embassy 24 hours a day for 40 months, which cost the taxpayer more than £ 11 million . 24-hour security was removed only in October 2015.

British law enforcement officials said that regardless of the decision of the Human Rights Council, they would be obliged to arrest and extradite Assange to Sweden.

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian online journalist and TV host, founder of the WikiLeaks website. In large volumes, he made public the top-secret materials about spy scandals, corruption in the higher echelons of power, war crimes and secrets of diplomacy of great powers.