Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority the course of the legal proceedings was the claimed fear that Assange could ultimately be extradited to United States of America should he be sent to Sweden. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has stated that "the various forms of deprivation of liberty to which Julian Assange has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention", calling for the case to be closed and Assange to be allowed to walk free. On 20 August 2010, two women, a 26-year-old living in Enköping and a 31-year-old living in Stockholm, jointly went to the Swedish police not seeking to bring
Julian Assange "special designation" diplomatic post in Russia – and the cover to leave the embassy and England – but the British Foreign Office did not recognise diplomatic immunity for Assange, and the effort was dropped. On 14 October 2018, ITV News reports that Assange's communications have been partially restored following a meeting between two senior UN officials and Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno. On 16 October 2018, congressmen from the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs wrote an open letter to Lenin Moreno which described Assange as a dangerous criminal and stated that progress between the US and Ecuador in the